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07-26-2009, 01:14 AM
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Limited Government and Internet Freedom

Rich Muny
July 25, 2009

The GOP has historically been the party of limited government and personal responsibility. President Ronald Reagan said it best in his frequent citations of Thomas Paine’s famous axiom – “the government governs best that governs least.” Unfortunately, the party moved away from the limited government conservatism of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan during the Bush Administration. In fact, the 2008 Republican Party Platform regrettably went so far as to advocate a federal prohibition of online poker. Fortunately, the party is now starting to rediscover limited government principles.

During that failed era of big government “conservatism”, some big government social conservative groups like Focus on the Family wished to use the power of the federal government to stop Americans from playing online poker in their own homes. To bolster their position, some of these groups falsely reported the results of gaming studies, leading to Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL) embarrassing himself on the House floor by erroneously claiming that one-third of college students who had tried online gaming had attempted suicide. Some of these groups also took polling data on brick-and-mortar casinos and misrepresented the data as evidence that voters felt the same way about online poker. They also took studies on video slot machines that display jackpot near-misses in excess of the actual frequency of near-misses (the "crack cocaine of gambling," according to FoF), falsely stated that the study results are applicable to all games on a video screen, then egregiously stated that online poker is included in the mix......

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07-26-2009, 07:52 AM
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07-26-2009, 12:27 PM
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