Push to Legalize Internet Poker Could Give U.S. Casinos Share of $25 Billion Pie

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Source: ABC News

U.S. Casinos Want Lawmakers to Level Playing Field for Online Gambling

Poker has been played by presidents and partisans alike for generations. But until now, lawmakers on Capitol Hill have tried to inhibit millions of Americans from participating in the popular game with other players online.

More than 2,000 websites currently offer users the chance to wager real cash in games of skill and chance, including poker, according to the American Gaming Association. But most of them are run by offshore companies, industry experts say.

Now some lawmakers want to allow U.S.-based casino companies to get into the game -- and a cut of the $25 billion-a-year pie -- by quietly pushing for a change in the law before the end of this year.

A draft bill, first reported by the Wall Street Journal and obtained by ABC News, would legalize online poker playing in the U.S., and establish licensing and reporting requirements for companies, as well as safeguards for consumers. It would also generate tax revenue from wagers, for state and federal governments.

Forms of online gambling other than poker would remain prohibited under the bill.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/internet-poker-bill-us-casinos-share-online-gambling/story?id=12308088

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1. See. it doesn't matter whether or not citizen's rights have been infringed

All they care about are the CORPORATIONS who want to make huge money and slip it to them.

Fucking Whores. The whole god damned lot of them.

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2. Exactly, they allow us to vote so we think we have a say. We thought things we change two years ago.

The elite and the Corporations are in have the power, not the tax payer.

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3. this is the thin edge of the wedge

they'll hammer the rest in later

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4. +1

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