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Maybe I'm too cynical and/or others too naive but IMM anyone thinking there's some high and mighty principle involved here like say, personal freedom or that adults should be able to visit a nearby casino when they feel like it, forget it.

Patrick is a Liberal with a passion for spending other peoples' money. IMO he doesn't see this as a chance to let free people do what they want, he sees rivers of cash that didn't come from having to say "tax increase" - anything that gets between him and the free money better look out.

So IMO if one thinks this was an inadvertent error or that Dems "can't possibly be like them bible-thumping Republicans", that could very well be a fatal error for MA online poker players and is why for my money this proposal must be STOPPED. There's no fixing or adjusting to be done when the underlying principle is that free people doing what they want is a threat to the govt's access to dough.