Ethics

Frank's Online Gambling Bill Has a Chance

By Ed Brayton

Here's an article that says Barney Frank's bill to legalize and regulate online gambling has a chance of passing, largely because it's being coupled with another bill to raise tax revenue from it.

Rep. Barney Frank might have come up snake eyes in his previous efforts to legalize Internet gambling but he's stepping up to the table again with a bill that would authorize the Treasury Department to regulate online wagering.

And there's another shooter in his corner: Jim McDermott , D?Wash., who sits on the Ways and Means Committee, introduced a bill (HR 2268) that would provide for the collection of associated tax revenues.

Both bills were introduced May 6.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 16, 2009 (boomark / email).