Hope from Barney Frank

Manne · #1 (**permalink**) 06-09-2007, 10:37 AM

Legal online gambling may return to the US. The ban, put into place last year, is now in jeopardy thanks to the efforts of folks like Barney Frank, the Democratic chairman of the House Financial Services committee.

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mike · #2 (**permalink**) 06-10-2007, 07:02 PM

Interesting. I suppose anything legalized is progress...I think

cassy · #3 (**permalink**) 06-11-2007, 08:18 PM

I look at it this way, if someone wants to spend their money on gambling, or booze, far be it for others to stop them. When the government gets involved in the lives of people they are just wasting time.

Manne · #4 (**permalink**) 07-08-2007, 01:37 PM

Casino operator MGM Mirage has given its backing to Barney Frank’s proposed Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act.

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Manne · #5 (**permalink**) 07-24-2007, 01:52 PM

Frank’s bill will neutralise the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, signed into law by U.S. president George Bush last October. The UIGEA prohibits financial transactions from banks and credit card companies to Internet casinos, poker rooms and sports betting sites, and has been described by Frank and other politicians as “preposterous,” “one of the stupidest laws ever passed by Congress” and as an invasion of American personal freedom.

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mike · #6 (**permalink**) 07-25-2007, 08:02 PM

Great news

aima123 · #7 (**permalink**) 07-26-2007, 10:38 AM

Good to hear that, to be legalized.

kisna · #8 (**permalink**) 07-27-2007, 04:19 PM

They had to do this in anyway.
Its good they did it so soon.

illuseesion · #9 (**permalink**) 07-27-2007, 09:02 PM

Better to make it legal, then to have to try to fight it as a crime, especially since people were going to do it anyway.