Paternalistic policies designed to squeeze the fun out of gambling target the wrong people
Anyone over the age of 30 will remember the controversy over the 2005 Gambling Act and all that talk about "super-casinos". In the end, the super-casinos were never built and only a handful of normal casinos were ever created. The panic about casino gambling was soon overtaken by the panic about fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs). The FOBTs have now been banished and anti-gambling activists have switched their attentions to online gambling....