Online Poker's Real Victim Is the Government  So argues Andrew
Cohen at The Atlantic.   This is wrong on a number of levels.
First, the only reason federal and state governments are being
"deprived" of taxable online poker revenue is because they've
made the activity illegal in the first place. Second, if we were
all morally upstanding citizens who obeyed the law like we're
supposed to (the larger theme of Cohen's post), those taxable
revenues wouldn't necessarily exist in the first place. I
suppose some online poker players would spend their money on
other things, most of which would be taxed. But that isn't a
given. And some of the money won by U.S. players came from
overseas players.  Cohen also says casinos and dog racing are
"victims" of online poker. I doubt poker is a common substitute
for betting on dogs. Casinos may have lost some money to online
poker, but I also doubt it's all that much. Online poker is a
different game than in-person poker. And it seems unlikely that
a high percentage of the peopl