The You Tube video begins by echoing Senator Ciro Nogueira's meeting with Economy Minister Paulo Guedes, which took place last Wednesday in Brasilia, where the legislator presented his PLS 186/2014, as well as data such as a possible tax collection of R$ 20 billion (US$ 5.15bn) per year, generation of jobs, among other benefits from the legalization of the gaming activity in the country.
The MBL coordinator in São Paulo also recalled that only with the local popular ‘jogo do bicho’ are currently held about 20 million bet per day and said: "Today, games of chance, which are prohibited, work very well. They continue to exist in every corner of Brazil clandestinely. That is, they do not generate revenue and taxes, do not generate direct jobs, do not generate formal jobs for people who work in this area, and when it comes to a clandestine activity, many other illegal activities end up occurring for this to exist."
Renato Battista also took a stand on the money laundering argument that is constantly being used by opponents of the gaming sector. According to him, if the country really followed this argument as a basis to ban some economic activity, many of them that are used by wrong people should already be banned.
Renato Battista ends the video saying: "Forbidding people to play is not an option. You should already know that, when walking in your neighborhood, in your city, various places already offer gambling. You must have played some kind of game yourself, something that does not necessarily involve technique, just luck. So there is no way to prohibit this type of economic activity in Brazil and we will see if Minister Paulo Guedes, who is a convinced liberal, should defend this type of economic sector, if he will consider this topic and bring for discussion to the federal government."
The MBL is a Brazilian political movement that defends economic liberalism and republicanism, active since 2014. In its manifesto, it mentions five objectives: "free and independent press, economic freedom, separation of powers, free and proper elections and end of direct and indirect subsidies for dictatorships."
The MBL arose with the organization of two demonstrations in the Brazilian states of São Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul in support of the investigations of Lava Jato Operation and for more press freedom. Formed mostly by young people under the age of thirty, its members are known for their incisive speeches, being compared by the magazine Exame as a startup that was born to make protests.
Currently, the movement has three elected federal deputies: Kim Kataguiri (DEM / SP), Paulo Eduardo Martins (PSC / PR) and Jerônimo Goegen (PP / RS). In social networks MBL has almost 5 million followers.
Source: GMB
