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The goals of the Graham-Chaffetz legislation are consistent with the highly publicized campaign by billionaire casino owner Sheldon Adelson to outlaw Internet gambling on moral grounds.
If I was allowed to answer I would have to wait until I stopped laughing so hard.
I figured you'd whine about current law, not about calls to unify laws.
When we're down a hole, the first thing we should do is stop digging. Existing law is hard enough to change without yet more new bad laws being proposed. The first poker ban in 2006 had to be stuck like a lamprey to the belly of a gigantic port security bill to pass. This one may get more attention, especially from more liberty-minded Republicans.
And here we go - Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah have officially introduced legislation in both houses of Congress to ban Americans from playing poker online, a freedom enjoyed by people in most other developed nations. But apparently Americans simply aren't worthy of that kind of liberty, compared to their British counterparts, according to Graham and Chaffetz...
And here we go - Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah have officially introduced legislation in both houses of Congress to ban Americans from playing poker online, a freedom enjoyed by people in most other developed nations. But apparently Americans simply aren't worthy of that kind of liberty, compared to their British counterparts, according to Graham and Chaffetz...
If the OP believes the resolutions are being suggested because they obtained funding from land based gaming operations, (which is most likely not correct, since many of the land based gaming operations have actually opened up online gaming sites), then clearly home table games of poker, which is currently illegal, would remove people from those very same land based gaming operations, would they not?
How else would one play poker legally?
The legality of home poker games is a state by state issue. The case you cited wasn't a home poker game, it was a man running a multi-table poker room in a warehouse and taking a rake. If the game is at a residence, and the only money the host can make is what he or she wins, then it's perfectly legal in many states.
Just more freedom eradication. What do you expect?
If ever there was a time to ditch this tyrannical two-party system, it's now.
I agree. However; both sides fear us libertarians. It cuts into their big government agenda of controlling others.
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