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Mainstream Media Interested in Gambling

Now that Congressman Barney Frank’s bill that would regulate, license and tax the online casinos has been passed through one sector of the House the mainstream media in the United States is much more interested in following the story. Just last week MSNBC invited Executive Director John Pappas from the Poker Players Alliance onto the show to talk about the pending internet gambling bill facing the Senate and the House. The PPA has a very strong presence in the US internet poker market right now and Pappas is an outspoken support of federal control over the offshore online casinos and internet poker sites seeking access to the US market.

This appearance on MSNBC is really some of the first real and open media attention that the online casino gambling issue has gotten in the US. Pappas used his appearance to discuss the nature of Barney Frank’s bill as well as the level of bipartisan support coming out of both the House and the Senate. The current US policies for offshore online casinos is simply not working and Pappas highlighted the fact that many key arguments against internet gambling industry are not valid. The new bill would not bring more taxes on the poor as they gamble but instead would bring the offshore sites into a formal tax arrangement with the US officials, forcing the untaxed offshore operators to now pay taxes to operate in the US market.

Tim Kelly was the opposition voice as Pappas described the potential new online casino gambling policies; Kelly previously served as the executive director for the National Gambling Impact Study Commission. Kelly’s arguments were not sound however and Pappas was able to clearly indicate that the new gambling polices in Frank’s bill wholly address concerns Kelly and others from the opposition have addressed in the past.