With all the hubub about last year’s attempts by House rep Barney Frank et al to push some bill or other through Congress to make online poker legal in the U.S., you’d think at least one of them would still be on the floor. Well if you did, you’d be wrong. Because now there’s a new online poker bill that’s just been introduced which may supercede all previous efforts.
The new U.S. online poker bill is called the Tax Fairness and Simplification Act and it was put together in a bipartisan efforts by two Senators, Judd Gregg and Ron Wyden. Obviously, if the name didn’t give it away, the bill isn’t solely about legal U.S. online poker, but it does include legislation for that. It also includes legislation for replacing the Alternative Minimum Tax and making it so that most Americans can file their taxes using a simple one-page form.
Superceding all previous bills aiming to legalize U.S. online poker is fine. Let’s just hope S3108 can succeed in the one area the others failed—getting passed into law.



