The state of gambling mostly just confusing.(News)

0 Comments | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), April, 2000

A Senate panel voted last week to ban betting on college sports because, in the words of Commerce Chairman John McCain of Arizona, "legalized gambling on kids is wrong." Legalized gambling by those "kids," however, is something our government spends money promoting. The Illinois Lottery, a daily gambling pastime where the odds are much worse than you'd get from any college sports bookie, uses public money to entice those 18 and older to throw away their money on a dubious longshot.

Our Illinois senators, Peter G. Fitzgerald, an Inverness Republican, and Dick Durbin, a Springfield Democrat, support the federal move to ban gambling on all amateur and collegiate sports - an activity currently legal only in Nevada. Professional sports leagues support...

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