Danny Funt
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602 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 5 Feb
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Yeah, that same game parlays are essentially an invention of online bookmakers.
These micro bets where you're betting on a play by play or possession by possession basis, that's entirely new.
Something you could only do if you're betting instantaneously from your phone.
So yeah, I'm right there with you.
It's like, you might've thought there'd be baby steps or such tight guardrails at first and then you'd ease things up.
It was basically, you know, off to the races immediately.
No doubt.
After the Supreme Court decision, there was a bill proposed by Chuck Schumer and a retiring Utah senator who I'm blanking on.
And it was sort of like just a symbolic, you know, let's plant a flag of, oh, we try to do something.
It got nowhere.
Since then, Richard Blumenthal, the Democrat from Connecticut, and Paul Tonko, a congressman from New York, also a Democrat.
have proposed a very aggressive set of reforms called the Safe Bet Act that obviously the industry detests.
But even much, much more modest proposals are resisted so aggressively by the industry and industry-friendly members of Congress.
Like,
there's always been a federal excise tax on betting.
So for every $100 bet, the federal government takes 25 cents, which adds up to a lot if you're betting $150 billion a year.
A few years ago, a few members, Tonko and Andrea Salinas, a Democrat from Oregon, proposed diverting, I think, half of the money that raised toward research, treatment, and prevention for gambling problems.
But research...
is so conspicuously uh neglected you know we don't really have a firm grasp of just how many people are betting let alone how many people have problems and you'd think using an excise tax to study the uh the breadth of the of the the sin that you're taxing would be uh common sense it was resistance you know the fight against that was so aggressive so severe and
I mean, that just goes to show how what was the rationale?
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