Comments on: House Debating ‘anti-gambling’ Bill Next Week http://www.the-gold-blog.com/2006/07/07/house-debating-anti-gambling-bill-next-week/ News - Discussion And Information For A Digital Gold World Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:11:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: The Gold Blog - News - Discussion And Information For A Digital Gold World http://www.the-gold-blog.com/2006/07/07/house-debating-anti-gambling-bill-next-week/#comment-65 The Gold Blog - News - Discussion And Information For A Digital Gold World Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:05:49 +0000 http://www.the-gold-blog.com/2006/07/07/house-debating-anti-gambling-bill-next-week/#comment-65 [...] Look closely, the US has gone from Rep. Bob Goodlatte’s (VA) bill, H.R. 4411, which originally got support from the Christian Coalition in an attempt to ban all Internet gambling, up to the present day which is, David Litterick — the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York attempting to connect the dots between online poker money and Osama Bin Laden style funding support. I just don’t see it. The original anti gambling bill was about stopping kids’ access to online gaming. How did they arrive at this new prosecutorial frontier? [...] […] Look closely, the US has gone from Rep. Bob Goodlatte’s (VA) bill, H.R. 4411, which originally got support from the Christian Coalition in an attempt to ban all Internet gambling, up to the present day which is, David Litterick — the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York attempting to connect the dots between online poker money and Osama Bin Laden style funding support. I just don’t see it. The original anti gambling bill was about stopping kids’ access to online gaming. How did they arrive at this new prosecutorial frontier? […]

]]> By: mgmt http://www.the-gold-blog.com/2006/07/07/house-debating-anti-gambling-bill-next-week/#comment-8 mgmt Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:57:24 +0000 http://www.the-gold-blog.com/2006/07/07/house-debating-anti-gambling-bill-next-week/#comment-8 Well Snap! The House Passed The Anti Gambling Bill. 7/11/06 Today’s press clippings: “This is a scourge on our society,” Goodlatte As expected, House lawmakers have passed HR 441, the bill that attempts to clear the way for a severe crackdown on Internet gambling. However, the frenzy of politics and press may just have been for naught as there is much less support in the Senate. Plus, November is quickly approaching and time is running out on the current legislative session. Oh, don’t forget about those elections. Poker Players Alliance put forth a study this week and argued that Internet Poker alone could be generating as much as $3 billion in federal and state revenues each year. Hey that will fund another full two weeks of war in Iraq, lets regulate it and grab those taxes. Come on…last year the UK. Well Snap! The House Passed The Anti Gambling Bill.

7/11/06
Today’s press clippings:
“This is a scourge on our society,” Goodlatte
As expected, House lawmakers have passed HR 441, the bill that attempts to clear the way for a severe crackdown on Internet gambling. However, the frenzy of politics and press may just have been for naught as there is much less support in the Senate. Plus, November is quickly approaching and time is running out on the current legislative session. Oh, don’t forget about those elections.
Poker Players Alliance put forth a study this week and argued that Internet Poker alone could be generating as much as $3 billion in federal and state revenues each year. Hey that will fund another full two weeks of war in Iraq, lets regulate it and grab those taxes. Come on…last year the UK.

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