Internet gambling

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

The (in effect) ban on internet gambling will presumably be signed today (or soon, anyway).

I go back and forth on this. Being that I have a libertarian slant, it ticks me off that the republicans want to continue to be the nanny. However, gambling can be (or perhaps is) as addicitve as crack to some, and I'm not for allowing people to manufacture crack in their homes.

I don't know. I suppose I'm against this bill, but I can see the arguments for it.

Addictive personalities will always find something to be addicted to. This and similar measures treat the symptom not the disease.

It really is just another example of special interest politics. It was not a bill that would ever have the support to pass on it's own so it was tacked onto the "must pass" ports bill.

To hell with a representative government, we'll just keep up business as usual in Washington seems to be the mantra of the day.