May 29th, 2008
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The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA) is typical of Republican leadership efforts to legislate morality. The GOP leadership embraced the power of the federal government to tell Americans what to do in their own homes with their own money. The GOP leadership also embraced UIGEA’s deputizing of banks to enforce the law, as if America’s banks were an unpaid arm of the Department of Justice.
The GOP leadership even supported UIGEA’s anti-free-trade provisions. In fact, a complaint was brought against America regarding UIGEA in the WTO, and America lost. Rather than respecting the decision (as America regularly does, often to the detriment of our homegrown industries), the U.S. settled the case and withdrew from that part of our treaty commitments. The public may never know how much the settlement cost us, as the Bush administration classified the settlement on grounds of national security!
Townhall.com::Why is the GOP Imploding?::By Rich Muny
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May 29th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
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