California Democrats want a $10 billion a year tax increase—putting a sales tax on your doctors’ bills, attorneys and CPA invoice, the dance lesson for your child and your yoga classes. Then you have an almost $2 billion gas tax, to build roads—though billions of current gas taxes are used not for roads, but bike, horse and walking paths and lanes. Find a Democrat and you will find billions in spending for new “human rights”
Don’t forget the $10 billion or more we will be paying for illegal aliens to have free health care if Obama gets his way. Add another revenue maker for the Left—online poker. Taken by itself, this may be a good idea—why should you be forced to go to a casino, why no gamble and lose your money in the comfort of your home? To Democrats online poker is not about equality in entertainment, it is just another means of getting money to waste and to buy future voters.
“Cullen’s coalition argues that Congress did not actually ban online poker in 2006. Rather, federal lawmakers outlawed online betting on games of chance, such as sports, while allowing for online betting on games of skill, such as poker.
The second issue under debate is whether operators of horse racing should be allowed to operate online poker. Assembly Bill 9 by Gatto, a Burbank Democrat, would require poker players to physically register in brick and mortar casinos and card rooms, thus excluding horse racing operators from the game.
Silly time in Sacramento. Open up online poker, stop playing games.
Gambling Online poker builds momentum with two new bills
The emergence of two new bills to legalize online poker is giving some California tribes fresh optimism that a compromise will open the game for lawful public use this year.
Allen Young, Sacramento Business Journal, 2/20/15
The emergence of two new bills to legalize online poker this week is giving some California tribes fresh optimism that a compromise will open the game for lawful public use this year. On Thursday, Assemblyman Adam Gray and Sen. Isadore Hall announced identifical poker legislation.
There are now four bills calling to legalize the game. But what comes next is a sensitive debate concerning tribal politics.
A primary sticking point remains on whether Pokerstars — the nation’s biggest online poker site — would be allowed to operate under a new California law.
Pokerstars, which is working with the Morongo Band of Mission Indians and the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, is accused of illegally profiting from the game in the years after Congress effectively outlawed online poker in 2006.
The group making that accusation — which includes the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians and the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians — supports legislation by Assemblyman Mike Gatto that includes a bad-actor clause that would prohibit Pokerstars from participating in the game.
The coalition defending Pokerstars favors another bill by Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer, a San Bernardino Democrat, which does not contain the bad-actor clause. Jones-Sawyer’s approach would allow the California Department of Justice to determine which companies should be allowed to operate online poker.
Under that backdrop, two new poker bills have emerged from Hall, a South Bay Democrat, and Gray, a Merced Democrat, that so far do not have details and are thus silent on the bad actor clause.
But the Pokerstars coalition is optimistic that both lawmakers will be sympathetic to their case.
“Our coalition is hopeful that these bills are going to be favorable,” said Matthew Cullen, who is CEO of online business for the San Manuel band of Mission Indians.
“Anything related to who is suitable and not suitable (to operate online poker) should be left up to regulators to decide, not the legislators,” he said.
Cullen’s coalition argues that Congress did not actually ban online poker in 2006. Rather, federal lawmakers outlawed online betting on games of chance, such as sports, while allowing for online betting on games of skill, such as poker.
The second issue under debate is whether operators of horse racing should be allowed to operate online poker. Assembly Bill 9 by Gatto, a Burbank Democrat, would require poker players to physically register in brick and mortar casinos and card rooms, thus excluding horse racing operators from the game.
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