1. The law’s deliberate slowness – both a safeguard and a frustration
- “The law is slow by design, it's deliberative, it's multi‑staged, it's escalatory and obsessed with consulting multiple jurists.” – EA‑3167
- “The law being slow is exactly why a guy like Trump in power is dealing so much damage. Nearly everything he’s done has been illegal, but the decisions often take so long that they have no effect.” – pennomi
2. Gambling as a negative externality that should be taxed and tightly regulated
- “Gambling is a negative externality that needs to be taxed… Companies also need to be restricted in how they are able to advertise their vices.” – echelon
- “Companies need to pay 40‑50% of their gross revenue to the government. That's comparable to tobacco.” – jareklupinski (quoted by echelon)
- “Those second‑order effects are easy to mitigate with sensible public policy.” – combobyte
3. Debate over what counts as “gambling” and the vagueness of the statutory language
- “This level of parsing looks like judicial legislation to me… Better that they declare the law void for vagueness.” – delichon
- “Since when has vagueness been considered a bad thing for statutes? It's the foundation of the US (and anglo) legal system…” – jmalicki
- “By a strict definition of gambling, the stock market is gambling… No, that is not a strict definition of gambling…” – xoa (responding to ryandrake)