4th March 2007, 8:00 PM
Gambling isn't a tax on the poor, it's a tax on people who are bad at math. Idiots, in other words, rich and poor. I've got a hard time making it illegal (freedom to do as one will), but I'd certainly want to give better math education and a little skepticism so people don't throw away their livelihoods on the stupidity. I say make it die because no one is interested.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)