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Grex > Sports > #74: Small potatoes sports betting Crime or Not a Crime? | |
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omni
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Small potatoes sports betting Crime or Not a Crime?
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Jan 25 00:27 UTC 1998 |
DO you think small time betting should be a criminal act, or should it be
de criminalized? A bill in the Michigan House would do just that, reducing
the penalty for small time gambling from a $500 fine to a $1 fine.
I don't know where I stand on the issue, because it's just like the drug
war. There is not enough resources to enforce the current law, but there is
so much illegal sports betting that the crime (if you can call it that) is
almost unenforceable.
Discuss
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srw
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response 1 of 3:
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Jan 25 06:48 UTC 1998 |
I think sports betting in which there is no vigorish should be decriminalized.
this would legitimize all office pools except the ones where someone is making
a profit by running the game. In that case, it is too easy for organized crime
to get into the picture.
That's precisely how I would draw the line between lgeal and illegal.
Right now office betting is not enforved at all. I think it ought to be
perfectly legal, sop the police don't have to decide which laws to enforce.
It does our system of justice a great injustice to have unenforceable laws
on the books. Let's dump them. This is a good thing.
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richard
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response 2 of 3:
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Jan 25 21:44 UTC 1998 |
I used to play in a weekly poker game pretty regularly....I dont see
anything wrong with smalltime gambling among friends. If I want
to blow twenty, or fifty bucks or whaever playing cards with friends,
its my money. Should I be fined? I dont thinkn so
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jep
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response 3 of 3:
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Jan 26 15:36 UTC 1998 |
I agree with everyone else. Office-pool type betting does no harm. Let
companies determine their own policies about it.
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