The senator explained why he got involved with the gaming topic. He says that in Brazil it is not possible to apply a “no gaming” policy as it is everywhere, and also mentioned that it is one of the countries with more betting activity in the world, but with no return or benefits to the society because those who operate do it in an illegal way.
"Brazil is one of the countries with more bets in the world, everything operated illegally and with the society not receiving the good side of the activity in terms of employment, income or tax collection," said Ciro Nogueira.
The Senator, author of PLS 186/2014, defended the legalization of all types of gaming and cited the cases of sports betting bookmakers that now carry resources abroad and of the slot machines that are more numerous than in the United States, but do not return anything to the country.
"Do you think it's right that Brazil has more slot machines operating than the United States? And injuring the population, because 95% of what is bet there returns in prizes, and here is the opposite. Most of them are adulterated machines that hurt the low-income population. That must be regulated," he added.
Responding to a question sent by the audience via social networks, Nogueira defended that the taxes collected with the legalization of the activity are reverted to public security that, he says, today needs specific resources to improve police salaries and other investments.
The deputy also defended that in a first stage of regulation the games be operated with a monopoly of a company of the Caixa Economia Federal to collect more taxes. Then, according to him, that company should be sold and then open the market to the private sector. All this with the supervision of a regulatory agency.
"I defend that, in a first stage, Caixa operates gaming modalities in a sort of monopoly. The state-owned bank would build a company that, in 5 or 10 years, will be sold for more value than Caixa itself and, then, will be possible to open the market. Brazil has the chance to collect a huge amount of money and, then, the population will gain," he said.
Source: GMB
