Why won’t Congress consider regulating online poker gambling?
Question by JuneB: Why won’t Congress consider regulating online poker gambling?
A great amount of revenue could be brought in by setting up strict regulations on internet gambling which in to-days economy could definitely help reduce the deficit. Congress should work with the PPA, not against it.
Answer by Vegas Matt
Because Congress doesn’t care what’s good for the country or the people, they care about what’s best for them individually. The radical Right Wing in the Deep South is run by the Evangelical Christians, so they must give the illusion that they’re latching onto the moral high ground on some issues, so they’ve decided that internet gambling is “morally wrong.”
Of course, they are a bunch of hypocrites since there are multiple forms of gambling in all of the states these congressmen represent. One of the biggest supporters of G W Bush’s anti-internet gaming law (who claimed he supported it on moral grounds) was also one of the biggest supporters of a law to legalize betting on horse racing online. This is the kind of douchebags we are dealing with.
That is a very vast topic to talk to. Actually, I don’t even know what’s on the mind of the people on congress who are working against it. Yes, you are right. It can deliver a great boost in a country’s economy. But again, we don’t know why they are working against it.
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I agree with Vegas Matt, and it is pretty much the same reason why they don’t legalize and regulate drugs and prostitution, other activities that harm no one except possibly those directly participating. But the Republicans have no problem opposing tobacco regulations because the tobacco companies are big contributors to the Republican party. So while they find gambling, drugs, prostitution, and sex with anyone other than a spouse of the opposite sex to be immoral (except it’s ok if they do it themselves), they have no problem with 50,000 nonsmokers a year basically being murdered from a product that they don’t even use, from secondhand smoke. I’m sure Congress is getting big contributions from the legalized gambling industry to keep online gambling illegal and eliminate their competition.