A. The U.S. House passed legislation to make it clear that most online gambling is illegal and forbidding the use of credit cards to gamble online, because "the Internet's widespread availability makes it too easy to gamble, something that can create betting addictions and financial problems." But:
B. The bill would exempt state-run lotteries and horse racing.
B cancels A. Everything else written about the legislation is nonsense, and everyone who voted for it is a hypocritical charlatan with no authority to speak to Americans on any moral issue.
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I'll bet anybody $20 i can still gamble on the internet.i don' need no steenkin' credit cards...email me to arrange to collect......And now, I dont need to search to find my bookie, or a cherrymaster machine, or "hoosier holdem poker game at any local bar, or veterans club.
I can do it all from the comfort of my laptop, and from anywhere downtown, and if i keep hot-spot hoping, they'll never catch me...as if....
Leo...very well put.
Funny how the state-run lotteries are perfectly moral. I believe what it comes down to is trying to protect the state's monopolies on gambling. Yep- hypocrisy at its' finest.
Interestingly, the poker sites and many pros (Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, Greg Raymer, and Howard Lederer, most notably) have lobbied to make it legal to locate onshore, and to have the activity regulated. It would bring in more than a billion in annual tax receipts. Surprising that the tax dollars didn't trump the monopoly tax on stupidity that is lottery.
Whoa. I missed this bit at first.
They're saying that online poker gambling is too easy because it's online?
This is unlike the lottery, which can be purchased at any gas station or grocery store, and is heavily advertized on TV and radio? Sure- Americans very rarely go to gas stations and grocery stores.
Hypocrisy.