Online gambling ban blasted

Re “That’s a losing hand,” Opinion, Oct. 24

I never would have believed it, but Joel Stein won me over on this column. Our “moral” government trying to stop online gambling is almost the biggest joke since it started to spend billions of dollars in Iraq. When does it ever turn down tax revenue from the middle class and poor?

Grow up, Washington, tax the heck out of it and save me $10 on my taxes next year.

MARGO L. ALLEN

Laguna Woods

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The ultimate irony of the bill banning Internet gambling is that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist rammed the prohibition through Congress by attaching it to the unrelated SAFE Ports Act and wouldn’t let Democrats read the final language. Frist believes in American values -- except the right to know what you are voting on.

I. NELSON ROSE

Encino

The writer, a professor of law at Whittier Law School, is coauthor of “Internet Gaming Law.”