Online casino legalization
In a USA Today story about Jim McDermott’s new bill proposing the taxation and regulation of online gambling to raise revenue for the development of human resources, the newspaper ran a poll online to determine public views.
The question asked was : Is it time to legalize online gambling?
As always with polls, the posing of the question becomes as important as the answer; many polls achieve desired results by slanting the question in a certain way. For instance, if Focus on the Family (a group whose very name gives them a misleading identification and power; a truer name would be Small-Minded Religious Fanatics) had asked this question, it might take the form of: Should we legalize online gambling and condemn our children to hell? Read the rest of this entry »
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