Internet gambling is big business and the conservatives have decided (Along with the Decider) that it has to stop. I can only presume that they weren’t getting a cut and that’s why they passed legislation to ban it in America.
Last year 12 million Americans placed about $6 billion in on-line bets. That’s half the worlds total!
Of course the new law is a grand demonstration of the conservative’s love of hypocrisy. With every other kind of gambling allowed, even welcomed…why would they decide to do the impossible? Do they really think that the market place will allow a $6 billion market to fade away? Even as I type these words, the smart people are working on ways to get around the law. And they will, and we will begin a new war, the War on Internet Gambling. Millions of our tax dollars will be spent trying to eradicate this scourge and all of those efforts will fail. Just like the War on Drugs; 20 years from now it will still be a war un-won. (Is that a word?)
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