Legalize Online Poker
As I have been writing about, the effort to legalize online poker in the U.S. Is continuing to gain steam. This week, Congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) made his case today for repealing the UIGEA (Unlawful Internet Gaming Act) and creating regulated online gambling environment in a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, D.C.
“The notion that this Congress should tell millions of adult Americans that we know better than they what they should with their own money on their own time on their own computer seems to me to be a very grave error,” said Frank, according to press reports, who chairs the committee. “It is true if things are the Internet, there is the possibility that underage people can get at them,” Frank said in his opening remarks. “There are a whole range of things on the Internet that we would not like underage people to use… The notion that because some people will abuse something, you prevent everybody from doing it, is as great a threat to the liberty of the individual as any philosophy I have seen.”
It seems like such an easy solution to just legalize poker online gambling, and the government could then regulate, and tax, it and gain a new revenue stream. Everybody wins. We must defeat the puritanical elite who try to deny us our right to play poker online.
