Super Bowl Sunday is a good time to examine the federal government’s hypocritical relationship with gambling. Betting at Native American casinos on federal land is fine. Wagering in Nevada and New Jersey is OK, too. State lotteries are great.
As long as the government is in on the action (taxes), placing a C-note on the Bears or the Colts is as moral as eating apple pie. But don’t dare use your BlackBerry or laptop to visit an offshore gaming Web site. If you do that, you lock the Internal Revenue Service out of the take and offend the “legitimate gaming” lobby. We could not agree more with the Daily Breeze.
People clearly want to bet on sports, and they are increasingly using computers to direct their money to where they want it to go, the right of anyone in a free society. Gambling is a form of speculating, and if someone thinks he can get a greater return on the Super Bowl than he can on Ford stock, why not let him?
The best bet would be for the government to lift the online gaming ban and instead license, regulate and tax Web sites that seek American bettors. Read more
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