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Accusing state legislators of hypocrisy for running a state lottery while banning privately-owned video poker, a state representative plans to introduce a bill are underway to legalize a video poker program that could raise $500 million annually. North Carolina had legal amusement-only video poker until 2007, the year after the lottery was launched.
According to the state operator association, the Entertainment Group of North Carolina, under the proposed legislation, the Department of Revenue would license and police operator activity. The proposed legislation will impose a 20% tax rate on poker revenues.
The legislator decided it was time to introduce the bill after a superior court judge ruled the 2006 ban on video poker was unconstitutional. The judge reinforced a former poker operator's case. He had sued North Carolina, claiming it unconstitutional to permit Indian tribes to run casinos while banning private enterprise from operating poker machines. Pokers remain illegal while this ruling is appealed.
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