Secondly, many states if not most, have a lottery system in place. These lotteries, when passed, were supposed to help education and things of that nature. So the congressmen who voted in the Port Act are saying, if the voters want a lottery in their state, then gambling in the form that the voters decide is O.K. Hmmm.
Now we get into the whole freedom of choice issue. if gambling as a practice is legal in most states, then why can’t people choose what kind of gambling they want to do; and furthermore, as long as gambling is taxed and regulated why can’t people gamble with whomever they want.
While I don’t think offshore sports books (or any online gambling establishment for that matter) fall into the category of taxed and regulated, that is a choice the U.S. congress and U.S. government have chosen.
There certainly is a demand for online gaming and the country could probably make quite a nice income from it, far better than the futile, and somewhat silly attempts, to extract more money from smokers or drinkers or whomever else they feel are easy targets. Then again, when they are taxing things like gas maybe they think we are all easy targets.
I am sure that internet gambling is not the major problem with debt collection in America today. I think the U.S. economy in general has had a far greater effect.
When gas prices quadrupled congress didn’t stop the gas companies from raising prices because they felt Americans are addicted to gas or because this area of an average American’s expenses were quadrupling in a very short period of time.
How congress can even mention debt collection in the act is absurd in itself.
Can you even imagine a health bill trying to ban Ben and Jerry’s or Baskin Robbins? It’s basically the same thing they are doing with gaming except the Ice Cream abuse is far more wide spread, accessible, and accepted, therefore causing more issues than internet gambling ever did.
If they were to outlaw ice cream, cookies, pizza and other fattening foods we love, maybe they can even get me to write the act for them.
I can tell you it would go something like this:
I know this bill is really about terrorism or gas taxes but, it’s the last day of the congressional sessions and the health care companies are paying us congressmen a ton of money and they say we haven’t been helping them out too much lately.
They say their costs are going up and it’s mainly because people aren’t eating well enough and Americans are just getting too big. The health care companies are saying its the food now; we just can’t blame it all on the smokers anymore because a lot of them are dead now and we just taxed the rest right out of their God-given freedom to smoke.
No one smokes anymore, and even if they did they aren’t allowed to smoke anywhere, anyhow. Thus, we have no one left to blame and the health care companies are not making enough money to give us congressmen the decent kick-backs and slush fund payoffs we’re accustomed to, so we are going to have to say goodbye to the foods we love the most, the ones that aren’t good for us.
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