Ed Rendell, governor of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, said this week he will seek to legalize video poker machines, which long have flourished as an illegal industry in Pennsylvania, to provide college tuition relief for families earning up to $100,000 per year, according to the newspaper Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. The plan is to make college tuition more affordable in tough economic times. Tuition relief would be provided to students attending 14 community colleges and 14 state-owned universities. He said the plan would help 10,000 students who otherwise could not afford to attend college. A family earning $45,000 annually would save 77 percent by sending a child to a state-owned university, or would pay 15 percent less at a community college, the newspaper reported. Pennsylvania would be one of only nine U.S. states to have legalized video poker. See, this is exactly the type of thing I have been long arguing for. I have always said that countries around the world would benefit from legalizing gambling, they would be able to levy taxes on casinos and card rooms and add a revenue stream to their financial coffers. And programs like this show the benefit of legalized gambling. Let this be the start of worldwide poker legalization!

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