Quote Originally Posted by bilbo63 View Post
You can't really protect the people from their selves in a free society. Irresponsible people will find ways to end up in poverty w/o needing gambling as the vice to avoid. Haven't we had enough of government protecting us against ourselves for our own good a.k.a. nanny state?
Until poker sites can guarantee that no US citizens that play there can dodge paying taxes on their winnings those sites will not be allowed to accept US players.
The govt. could care less about Joe six pack going broke. It's all about the money they might be missing out on.



Which is exactly why they took down the biggest "poker only" sites. And left 100s of "poker and casino" and "casino only" sites. There's no money in protecting the citizens. There was money in attacking the large companies. Rest assure the sites that where most concerened with encryption, safe banking and accounts, good software, and fighting hacking (to protect it's players which are its income) where the ones the US gov't took down.