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Fantasy Sports: Game of Skill
Monday, May 23, 2016 - Posted by Advertising Department [The following is a paid advertisement.] With all the issues that are currently plaguing this state, I find it absurd that this is even a question whether or not the people of Illinois should have the right to participate in daily fantasy sports. To ban fantasy sports, while sponsoring a lottery that until recently wouldn’t even pay its winners, is beyond hypocritical. Rep. Michael Zalewski was on a local radio station and discussed the current legislation that is available to be put in place. The state telling me whether or not I can spend $3 on a fantasy sports entry is extremely frustrating. Instead, something the state does encourage is the lottery, which requires zero skill and has an astronomically lesser chance of winning, but is a major source of income for the state. - Gregg Cooper, Chicago
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Fantasy Sports Is Internet Gaming
Monday, May 23, 2016 - Posted by Advertising Department [The following is a paid advertisement.] The daily fantasy sports gambling industry is pressuring officials to pass a bailout that actually costs taxpayers. According to COGFA these Internet gaming giants would each pay just $900,000 in state taxes, but they could afford $500 million in television ads last year. Taxpayers may actually have to subsidize regulating online sports wagering. The Illinois Gaming Board doesn’t know how much it will cost to oversee this new form of online gaming. The state is facing an unprecedented budget crisis, but two out-of-state companies, which the Attorney General said broke law, want you to give them valuable Internet gaming licenses. Everyone but paid fantasy sports operators agree, it’s gambling:
• Attorneys General across the country decided it’s been illegal gambling • NFL great Joe Namath says it’s gambling • The Chicago Crime Commission believes it’s gambling Proponents are telling elected officials a fantasy, but the budget crisis is real. Don’t make it worse and pass a fantasy sports bailout that actually costs the state money.
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