Say Anything Blog

More religous love. This is the only thing that is worse than politicians wanting to control personal rights, wait it is the exact same thing, what was I thinking.

Maybe their concerned that the people will gamble with the governments money (it’s all their money) somewhere else besides the lobby or charitable gambling. 

The state won’t be able to get their skim off of that which is so so unfair to those poor government types.

After all if the state employees don’t get more money sooner or later the taxpayers are going to catch up with them in wealth.

The Debate is over!  Global Whining has been confirmed.

It’s time for the ND state legislature to meet once every three years.

If I were a ND GOP lawmaker, I’d introduce legislation to end the lottery because of the damage it does to poor communities (which buy most of the tickets) and enjoy watching Democrats squirm.  As our gracious host hints, they do need to complete their logic in this area.

It’s time for the ND state legislature to meet once every three years.

Fine by me.

The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

Rob’s recently listened-to songs:

There are enough laws, time to get rid of some.

For every law written one must be taken off the books.

For every dollar in tax cuts, there must be two dollars in spending cuts.

For every spending increase, the primary sponsor must be whipped with a ‘cat of nine tails.’

These are the Draconian types of laws we can live with.

Gambling is for losers—even the State knows this.  It’s against our long-term interest to promote gambling…

Yeah yeah, save it, ya buncha libertarian/anarchist wannabes! 

Still, I always found it profoundly strange that here in N.C. (before we got our own ‘loser pays’ game anyway) that it was illegal to hold a lottery ticket from a neighboring state, yet both Virginia and South Carolina advertised their games on N.C. stations, and our local papers published the numbers.

Aiding and Abetting, anyone?

Effin’ Losers.

[Feet make good soup!]

I think state-run lotteries are pretty dumb.  I don’t think the states should be in the gaming business.  But gambling in general?  I say let it go.

Who are you to say that I can’t win a few hundred bucks from my friends playing poker on the weekend?

The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

Rob’s recently listened-to songs:

Who are you to say that I can’t win a few hundred bucks from my friends
playing poker on the weekend?

Nobody at all.

But as a citizen, i do have as much input as anyone as to whether “the state can win a few million bucks playing poker with her citizens on the weekend”.

I think the game is rigged, and the state has rigged it us all.  That’s not the same as playing with friends.

[Feet make good soup!]

sorry, “the state has rigged it against us all...”

[Feet make good soup!]