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Bullets Poker Club The Fight To Keep Online Poker Legal
By: poker,
Poker Is Not a Crime.
The Poker Players Alliance is leading the rally to keep online poker legal and fight the hypocritical and prohibitionist anti-gaming legislation from Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and others. Below are details on how you can participate.
First of all, please take the time to join the over 100,000 members of the Poker Players Alliance, if you haven’t already. The PPA is the strongest voice for you in politics and is focused on representing your interests on Capitol Hill and elsewhere. Some of the major players joining the battle are Pocket Fives, Wicked Chops Poker, The Rounders Room, Doyles Room, Party Poker, Full Tilt and many others.
And why not? Pro-gaming lobbyists are highlighting a new study that shows legalizing online gambling could create tens of thousands of new jobs over five years.
H2 Gambling Capital, a Manchester, U.K.- based market analysis firm for the gambling industry, released a new report on Monday that says legalized online gambling would spark 32,000 new jobs and $57.5 billion in new tax revenue over five years. It could also lead to $94 billion in new economic activity, the firm estimates.
This study should provide further incentive for the Obama administration and Congress to act quickly to regulate Internet gambling. By keeping online gambling illegal, U.S. lawmakers are losing billions for their economy and leaving tens of thousands of U.S. players without any onshore regulatory protection.
Online gambling in the United States was first banned in 2006. Republicans attached a rider to a ports security authorization bill to institute the ban.
Conservative Christian groups as well as professional sports leagues lobbied hard for the measure and have since opposed any attempt to legalize the industry.
The threat to poker is real. Please forward this information to everyone you know who cares about poker and an American’s freedom to use the Internet. We need everyone possible to make their voice heard!
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