N.Y Times article on Big names endorseing Offshore Betting

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That is pretty interesting.

Jim Kelly, Tom Arnold. How about the sapranos guy

The sites continue to seek out new celebrities to market their products. This month, Robert Iler, the 20-year-old actor on "The Sopranos" who plays Tony Soprano's son, started appearing on betcris.com, a Costa Rica-based sports book and casino.

The company sought out Mr. Iler, according to its chief executive, Mickey Richardson, after he was caught in a police raid on an illegal card game in New York.
 

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talked to Jessie about this at the TPC up here and he's not a huge gambler but want's to do something that pays him a check!
 

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If they had put this at the start of the article:
The federal government "probably has got its hands full with others things right now," he said. Besides, he added, online gambling "is probably a train that can't be stopped."

I probably wouldn't have bothered reading it at all. Also, I could probably give birth to twins even if I'm male.
I don't like the article. It's speaking as if something illegal is trying to push and get legal, while the only reason gambling is in grey territory is state revenues interests.
 

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The federal government "probably has got its hands full with others things right now," he said. Besides, he added, online gambling "is probably a train that can't be stopped."

Sureeeeee.

Ok let's go over government 101.

How does a government afford to operate?


By making money

How does a government make money?

By collecting taxes and imposing fines on people that violate the law.

Now we know that offshore gambling does two things that would piss off any government. First, they circumvent tax revenues. Second, it violates the law.

Saying that the government has other things to do is like saying a buisness is too busy to have another customer.
 

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