Posted on 12/19/2007 9:24:59 PM PST by skully
WASHINGTON: Microsoft, Yahoo and Google agreed to pay a total of $31.5 million to settle a government probe into their role in promoting online gambling dating back to 1997, officials said.
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Nice shakedown.
It’s a felony to gamble online here in Washington State, but you can buy a state lottery ticket or gamble 24/7 at one of our Indian casinos.
The highest taxed products here in wa, are most likely booze, tobacco, and gambling. The state, big pimp daddy...
If they could tax prostitution and drugs, they’d be all over it. Of course, they get it via fines, but man could they make a killing...
In regards to prostitutes. Maybe the state could offer free needles, birth control, aids screening in exchange for no legal charges and a “handling” fee.
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