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Originally Posted by rastajenk
The guy is describing a 1984-style police state in which everyone is guilty of something, and eventually everyone will be caught. 2020's enforcement of Covid policies was just a tune-up.
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No, he's describing a regulated industry that people voluntarily enter.
Start here: the government doesn't have to permit pari-mutuel betting or horse racing at all. Go to Utah or Hawaii. There are no racetracks there.
If a state decides in its grace that it wishes to permit people to race horses with folks betting on them, the state can literally impose almost any regulatory regime it wants to. In other words, if the rule were "your horse fails one drug test and you will never race here again for the rest of your life", that would be perfectly acceptable. Not "1984". There are regulated industries (like airline pilots and train engineers) where there are rules that approach that level of strictness.
Every step a state takes away from that standard is purely a matter of grace. Nobody has any right to race horses with public betting. If you don't believe me, go sue the state of Utah for not allowing it and let me know how it goes.
We, the public, LET these people into this profession. And we can make the drug testing requirements as strict as we want to. Indeed, we should.
