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Joe Barton: “Let me say that prohibition will just play into the hands of the criminal element just as it did in the 1920s when…”

On the recordDecember 9, 2013
Let me say that prohibition will just play into the hands of the criminal element just as it did in the 1920s when alcohol was banned.
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Joe Barton
Republican · Texas

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Joe Barton warns that banning Internet gaming would empower criminals, similar to alcohol prohibition.

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