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I'm sure their whole reason is the inability to accurately track or collect tax on the winnings, as well as revenue going to companies overseas without being tariffed.
Nah- that's only part of the reason. There is an easy solution to that problem- allow the sites to operate within the U.S. Like I said, at least one site has offered to pay taxes on their revenues if they could move their business here legally.

No doubt taxation is part of it, but if poker weren't illegal in the first place, then taxation wouldn't be a problem. In fact, online sites would be the ideal place to tax poker because it'd be easy to track and audit, unlike home games.

Anyway, it's just frustrating to me because I don't see making online poker illegal as accomplishing anything except making a lot of people lawbreakers- I doubt it will do anything to increase government tax revenue or decrease whatever negative aspects result from the poker playing. A few people (like me, who really does try to follow the law) may stop, but what does that accomplish really?

Oh, and looking closer at the wording in the article, it actually doesn't say anything about making it illegal to play poker online- it only makes the activities of the sites themselves illegal. Which is truly unenforcable and equally as pointless.
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