Bush expected to sign gambling ban into law...

[stickyone13]

Originally Posted by cheebaa

It's a lot harder to use a credit card that doesn't belong to you in person rather than online, i mean think about it.

I'm just saying the things we think are constitutionally protected may not be- online gambling is just another way for someone to extort people. I mean here is a person/company that is making money off the LOSES of other people. Your not paying a servive- they are taking your money.

Theres alot of things I don't agree with, but to argue that this should be a protected right seems ignorant to me.

People should be able to do what ever they want with their money- this online gambling makes it easy for someone to be using money that isn't theirs.

I'm sorry, but if you're going to take that line of reasoning, then you need to ban online commerce altogether. Just because it's a wee bit easier to use someone else's credit card online than in a store (which i don't really buy, since i can count on 1 hand the times in the past 3 months that someone actually looked at the name on my card or asked for ID of any kind), doesn't mean you shut it down. I live in Texas, and I have to drive to Louisiana if i want to gamble in a casino. Can't really do that in between class and work. I can, however, jump online, hop in on a sit and go, and be ready to go with my winnings in my account inside of an hour. The issue here is tax revenue, and tax revenue only. Really, i just think the government's pissed they didn't think of it first. Think about it, millions upon millions of hands of poker are played online every day. In the cash games, the house takes a nickel for every dollar that's put into play. that'll add up quick, with thousands upon thousands of users logged on at any given moment. This law doesn't even really sound like it should be allowed. I'd be interested to hear a law student's take on it, since he/she would have a much better working knowledge of the constitution as a whole than i do.

please don't make this about extortion/identity theft/whatever else you want to call it. It sucks that you know a guy who's a big enough douche to rip of his grandma, but that has nothing to do with me or my buddies who keep around a hundred bucks in the account of our own money that we earned and use responsibly. If everything was made illegal just because a few people abused the privalege, then trying to find a good place to smoke would be the least of our worries.

[cheebaa]

I'm talking about people being able to develope addiction man, not just buy some shit with someones card.

Secondly you ARE supposed to claim your "winnings" on your taxes and pay the taxes on them.....






Suprised you didn't know that.