JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. -- The National Assn. of Attorneys General (NAAG) just met in Jackson Hole for their summer meeting and internet gambling was still high on their list of topics. A Reuters story offered sever interesting quotes from Wisconsin’s AG James Doyle. Here’s a sampling:
"The great concern here is that in a very short period of time, people will have in essence a video gambling machine in their own home and they can go and lose $500, $1,000, $1,500 just as their evening's entertainment instead of sitting down in front of a television set."
"That's going to put enormous pressures on us in the states -- not only law enforcement, but the kind of social problems, financial problems that that creates."
"I think there's no doubt you're dealing with hundreds of billions of dollars ... The amount of money we're talking about is just astronomical."
"But where this is going is an actual interactive, rapid kind of video game which we know ... are the most addictive."