A proposal to add an amendment to a U.S. health care bill that would help pay for the bill by taxing online gambling was scrapped this week.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) had offered the amendment on Tuesday, but it was quickly withdrawn as it promised to create more problems for the already controversial health-care debate in the United States.
“The last thing Sen. Wyden wants to do is make it more difficult to expand subsidies for working families by introducing a new contentious issue to the debate,” Jennifer Hoelzer, Wyden’s communications director told The Hill, a newspaper covering Congress in Washington, D.C.. “So when he offers the amendment, he will do it with other funding mechanisms.”
Some Democrats had come out in support of taxing online gambling and poker to support the health-care bill. But because Republicans are already against the bill without the online gambling tax provision, Democrats did not want to give the other side of the aisle more ammunition to attack the legislation.
There are currently pieces of legislation in the U.S. Congress that would legalize online poker by repealing the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, and that would regulate and tax online wagering.
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