Reid pushes for online gambling bill

[bamacre]

Fine by me but tax it heavily along with drugs (including alcohol and tobacco) and prostitution.

Yes, government should tax anything you perceive as "bad."

I say, yes, let gay people get married, but tax the hell out of it.

 

[umbrella39]

Good news for degenerate gamblers like yourself

Really. What is it with these guys? I never knew the two went hand and hand until reading who the addicts posting here were.

 

[sandorski]

Do you get off on the personal insults? How do you know he's a degenerate gambler? Just because you don't agree with his political views? Grow the fuck up and learn to debate or else you just add to the cesspool.

Anyway, this bill should never have passed in the first place. It's a testament to how shitty politics can be that this was tacked on to the Safe Port Act, a bill to improve security measures at sea ports. How does internet gambling have anything to do with that? From what I can tell, there was no sign of the Internet banning portions in the bill that was passed by both the House and Senate, yet it was there when Bush signed it in. Yet another example of Republicans not living up to their "less government" mantra and I'm very surprised that it's a Democratic Congressman that's initiating the overturning of it.

lol. "Degenerate" is a matter of opinion, which many probably agree with. "Gambler" is quite accurate, given the amount of Bets made a month or 2 ago.

Welcome to P&N.

 

[nonlnear]

Harry Reid pushes for a bill that would be sensible, except for the fact that it stifles competition in favor of the established "big boy" casinos. Shocking.

Strip the five year established operator provision and I'm all for it.

 

[sportage]

I just wish they'd let you buy a powerball lottery ticket online. I'd buy one, once in a while for a dollar, but I never have the desire to go inside the gas mart (whatever) to buy one. Unless they'd let you buy at the pump somehow. Other than that, Im all for the total banning of all gambling and casino's...period. I still consider it simple raw organized crime. But I also consider todays banking system in the same boat. Your basic organized crime. And like the old days of the mob and organized crime, the banks now own all the politicians, just as the mob did. Actually I think the banking system took a lesson from the mob and became the mob. You just don't see banking CEO's shot dead on the streets by other banking CEO's.

 

[werepossum]

Yes, government should tax anything you perceive as "bad."

I say, yes, let gay people get married, but tax the hell out of it.

Excellent point.