@[email protected] to UK [email protected] • 9 hours agoOver half of Britons support increasing tax on online gamblingwww.thecanary.coexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up150arrow-down11
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•5 hours agoThis. When only one side of the bet can lose. It is not gambling but rigged capitalism. When an industry manages to remove all the risk from investment. While offering little to the society they inhabit. High taxation to help return their cost to society. Seems a bare minimum charge.
minus-squareFlaxlinkfedilinkEnglish2•5 hours agoAt least with the likes of a lottery the odds are obvious and “only one person winning each month”, etc. A fruit machine programmed to only win once a month isn’t.
This. When only one side of the bet can lose. It is not gambling but rigged capitalism.
When an industry manages to remove all the risk from investment. While offering little to the society they inhabit.
High taxation to help return their cost to society. Seems a bare minimum charge.
At least with the likes of a lottery the odds are obvious and “only one person winning each month”, etc. A fruit machine programmed to only win once a month isn’t.