Gotta love Andrew Stuttaford’s take on Frists dumb anti-gambling move. The part that makes my head real is not this quote:
“If an adult in this country, with his or her own money, wants to engage in an activity that harms no one, how dare we prohibit it because it doesn’t add to the GDP or it has no macroeconomic benefit. Are we all to take home calculators and, until we have satisfied the gentleman from Iowa that we are being socially useful, we abstain from recreational activities that we choose?… People have said, What is the value of gambling ? Here is the value. Some human beings enjoy doing it. Shouldn’t that be our principle? If individuals like doing something and they harm no one, we will allow them to do it, even if other people disapprove of what they do.”
It’s who said it.
Update 12 Oct :
Stuttaford got some feedback from the Hill which may be illuminating.
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