Things Can’t Be Too Bad
By Mitch Berg
New Jersey Democrat Frank Pallone is proposing to investigate…
No more worries about terrorists, economic stagnation, the impending bond bubble, the entitlement a balloon or a nuclear Iran.
It’s almost enough to make me want to take up the pastime.
September 16th, 2015 at 6:30 am
Until he wants to investigate State Lotteries because there’s no difference between lotteries and gambling except a “loophole,” I’m not terribly interested.
September 16th, 2015 at 7:37 am
If you are going to investigate gambling, how about the Indian casinos. I see non-stop commercials of all these happy people winning money. I do believe almost no one wins money at a casino. Most lose. Many lost big. Many steal money to support their losses.
September 16th, 2015 at 8:37 am
Well, you can’t advertise $2 billion in payouts (while paying NFL air-time advertising costs) without some Congress-critter showing up and saying, “Nice little game you got here. Shame if something were to happen to it.”
September 16th, 2015 at 8:47 am
Chuck, a few years ago I visited an Indian casino up near Bayfield, Wisconsin. It was a poor casino. The parking lot wasn’t paved. All the cars parked there were dented and rusted. The casino’s ATM was broken (!?). I stuck a dollar’s worth of quarters in a slot machine and it payed out $60. I’m not much of a gambler, so I took the money and left.
I felt guilty. Maybe my win meant they wouldn’t be able to make payroll that week.
September 16th, 2015 at 8:55 am
Remember to gamble responsibly! Also, remember to drink responsibly, and to discharge your fireworks responsibly,
Twenty years ago you could smoke cigarettes responsibly by smoking in a designated area, or rolling down the window if there was a child in your car. There is now no way to smoke cigarettes responsibly. Don’t even try.
September 16th, 2015 at 9:07 am
Frank Pallone just wants to get his beak wet.
September 16th, 2015 at 11:51 am
The default position of any self-respecting democrat ought NOT be to regulate fantasy football, but TAX it.
September 16th, 2015 at 12:23 pm
Prussian Blue, don’t forget #ChanceItMN responsibly.
September 16th, 2015 at 2:58 pm
Yep, you guys nailed it. Unregulated = untaxed.
September 17th, 2015 at 12:54 pm
Since I’m not the gambling type, I’ll bet dollars to donuts that some supporter of his, or someone on his staff, or maybe even someone in his family, made a stupid call with some FF website, lost a ton of money, and decided to use Pollone’s governmental position to exact revenge.