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Message: [QUOTE="zachvac, post: 985617, member: 26306"] Basically it's going to be unenforcable. The more I read about it the more it seems to be like the '06 attempt. That said, I think we should treat it as a wake-up call and attempt to use the momentum we have to overturn the '06 law, and getting the recent enforcement reversed would be a good first step. But also it's pretty well understood that the games got tougher after 2006 when UIGEA passed. We want the recreational fish to not have to jump through hoops, go through friends who have accounts in Mexico, etc. It's also a matter of personal freedom. If we have the right to spend our own money on something like poker (which was actually affirmed in the enforcement, playing is not illegal, depositting or withdrawing is not illegal, but a bank transferring the money is the one committing the crime), why should we have to find loopholes and work-arounds? The sad part is most people would be fine with taxation and regulation. It's not that they want tax dollars, it's that the lobbyists for Focus on Family and the NFL (they want gambling money to go on football games, not poker, they even got an exemption for fantasy football because THAT is a game of skill) spent money and have influence, and they have convinced too many people that gambling is sinful and that allowing people to gamble will destroy families and yadda yadda yadda. That said, the recent election has shifted it towards our favor. Whether we can get a majority (and not get filibustered) if still up in the air. But especially facing the prospect of a fillibuster we really need to make sure the UIGEA enforcements are overturned by Congress as per the Clinton law about overturning midnight executive orders. [/QUOTE]

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