Barney Frank’s Revenue Solution: Legalize Gambling and Pot

Rep. Barney Frank offered some ideas for "revenue raisers" during his appearance with Jay Leno on the Tonight Show.

September 1, 2010 at 11:43 am - NBC Tonight Show
Dateline: Hollywood
mustafamonde   September 1st, 2010 - 11:53 am

Wow, what a creative genius! Perhaps we can win our tax money back playing a game of 3-card full Monty. Frank's preferred game.

PaleRyder   September 1st, 2010 - 11:53 am

Here's a much better idea barny. Prosecute those who,such as yourself, aided in the fleecing of America thru their corrupt fannie and freddie contacts. Get all that money back,put those responsible in jail. Then drain the cesspool swamp of theft in the halls of congress and bring every one of those theives to justice and maybe redistribute their ill-gotten wealth. Repeal every single law that has barrys signature on it and imagine the trillions saved there. How about we get back every penny of American tax dollars you help send to the banks of foreign countries. I could go on and on for pages,but suffice it to say,anything suggestion you might have is dead in the water and will do nothing to help this country,just empower more of your corrupt and lying political party.

tftx22   September 1st, 2010 - 11:53 am

Let's legalize prostitution while we are at it. Forget future generations paying our debt, let's push our children into labor so they can start paying for it right NOW. They won't care either because they can pay for mary j with their wages so the govt. can tax it. WIN WIN SITUATION.

What is this fat idiot talking about? I wish he would actually listen to his constituents before he goes on public tv and preaches what ifs and how tos.

JoeKidd   September 1st, 2010 - 11:55 am

I'm against legalizing pot, but if it happened, it would DO NOTHING to solve the budget crisis.

SuperCat   September 1st, 2010 - 11:56 am

He only said this so that one day he can get a young male house of hookers legalized…damn nasty pervert that he is…guy is too cheap to pay full cost for a fairy ride meanwhile he bankrupts fannie and freddie and dates the men execs there. Hang him.

JoeKidd   September 1st, 2010 - 11:56 am

Memo to Obama and his Democrats: STOP SPENDING, then PASS A BUDGET you freakin' idiots!

skipper99   September 1st, 2010 - 11:58 am

With Barney, its a case of screw the other guy, literally, then screw the taxpayer, actually, and then when Barney runs out of other peoples money to spend due to his corrupt conduct and incompetence find another revenue stream in the form of legalizing what is inherently wrong. This piece of human waste has to go.

mariodebarrio   September 1st, 2010 - 11:59 am

opiating the masses.

Meh88   September 1st, 2010 - 12:06 pm

Leno and his clown act. Honk your nose for us Barney.

RadarHawk   September 1st, 2010 - 12:07 pm

More Euro-madness thinking. BF is the poster-child for term limits.

Dave_in_Oregon   September 1st, 2010 - 12:08 pm

He forgot to add legalize male prostitution and child sex which are on the top of his "want list!"

tatankachief   September 1st, 2010 - 12:09 pm

Boy, now you've done it.

…gone and made sense. I'll bet you're on the same list I'm on now.

…good company, welcome aboard ;o)

kmichaels   September 1st, 2010 - 12:10 pm

Franks would suggest some activity that will cause even more Americans
to toss even more money down a bottomless pit. Franks is such
a selfish self-serving perverted rat bastard.

TalkingDust   September 1st, 2010 - 12:11 pm

Has Jay Leno been getting conservative injections?

tatankachief   September 1st, 2010 - 12:12 pm

I'm sure glad Leno didn't drop anything while standing in front of him. I'll bet we'd have seen Frank's 'poker' face then!

NunChucks   September 1st, 2010 - 12:12 pm

If Aunt Bea were still alive, she'd beat the Hell out of Barney with a flyswatter. She'd lay into Andy and Opie too, the liberal Marxists!

NewBlackPamper   September 1st, 2010 - 12:12 pm

Bahney Fwank caught me off guard. I thought he was going to sue all of the states that still had sodomy laws.

NunChucks   September 1st, 2010 - 12:14 pm

Barney had no interest in the mortgage industry until someone mentioned the name Fannie. That's when all the trouble started.

NunChucks   September 1st, 2010 - 12:16 pm

I think an important point to consider here is that Barney had no interest in the mortgage industry until someone mentioned the name Fannie. That's when all the trouble started.

antilibtards   September 1st, 2010 - 12:17 pm

Everyone knows that Frank wants his fairy rides for free.

NewBlackPamper   September 1st, 2010 - 12:19 pm

huh huh. Hey Beavis? He said, "Fannie"

Goo   September 1st, 2010 - 12:19 pm

Depraved human being. Sickening.

antilibtards   September 1st, 2010 - 12:19 pm

How stupid of America because we are not paying enough taxes. We need to pay taxes on gambling and smoking dope so that idiots like Barney effin Frank, Pelosi, Reid and Obama can waste that money too just like they have with all of our other tax dollars. Screw you Frank.

Democrat_Decimation   September 1st, 2010 - 12:20 pm

Hmm, didn't this guy run a male prostitution ring out of his apartment in the 1990's? Yes, he sure did. Then how is this idiot a Congressman?

Grace656   September 1st, 2010 - 12:25 pm

This guy makes my flesh crawl. Ick.

Chimenin   September 1st, 2010 - 12:26 pm

Can it get more IN OUR FACE how out of control our so-called government is? Barney is a complete disgrace. The "people" that vote him in should have a fence built around them.

HookedOnObonics   September 1st, 2010 - 12:27 pm

Uh…and butt s.e.x. Right B. F.?

B0BBYJ   September 1st, 2010 - 12:27 pm

Yes, investigate, indict, prosecute, imprison and strip of all pensions, all corrupt congrASSmen like Barney's Frank, Schumer, Rangel, Pelosi, Dodd, etc.

boriqua   September 1st, 2010 - 12:28 pm

If the USA legalizes pot it would destroy Canada's economy.

Canada would not be able to afford cradle to grave socialism without cannabis dollars flowing in from their biggest pot customer.

Imagine Canadians sneaking across the border to get free medical treatment under Obama-care.

Imagine drug dealers smuggling superior quality US pot into Canada!! I love it! Lets do it! USA-USA-USA!!

smoke ranch   September 1st, 2010 - 12:28 pm

Sin pays. Barney is openly gay. It figures. Buy the way those who can least afford to gamble, will be the ones who will gamble. And then there will have to be a government program to help these hopeless sick people and their families who will suffer.

Subsalior   September 1st, 2010 - 12:29 pm

Bwaney Fwank …..

Takes time from "fudge-packing" to be on Leno….

WHAT A JOKE !

ViveLAmerican   September 1st, 2010 - 12:30 pm

My money is on Pale Ryder's plan!

UrinalMint   September 1st, 2010 - 12:34 pm

What an ankle grabbing butt mare.

This guy needs to be voted out of office at the minimum although he should go to jail for his involvement with Freddie and Fannie (no pun intended)

HeReturnsSoon   September 1st, 2010 - 12:39 pm

This is the kind of FILTH that has infected OUR government. Say NO to this sickness in NOVEMBER.

JoeDoakes101   September 1st, 2010 - 12:44 pm

Maybe we go the whore house in the basement of our homes route? We could consult with Barney's ex-boyfriend for instruction on how to properly run one?

NewOrleansAnn   September 1st, 2010 - 12:44 pm

Prostitution's not legal already?
http://newsbusters.org/node/8119

Hailodumbo   September 1st, 2010 - 12:51 pm

I am still laughing at this clown for arguing two weeks ago for his senior citizen discount of $1 with the Ferry guy on his trip to to Fire Island Gay community. What a piece of work… Only in America can an idiot like this play a big role in destroying the country while he argues for a $1 discount ticket…

father_moray   September 1st, 2010 - 12:57 pm

seizure and forfeture of fat boy's personal loot…ripping off taxpayers for his lifetime…all democrats pay it back…every damned dime our grandkids are in debt for…just for demo's greed and tyranny…

kmichaels   September 1st, 2010 - 1:00 pm

Only if you are looking for gay whore houses.
If so then check with the poster RetiredManWhore
he knows all about money making man whoring.

scramasax   September 1st, 2010 - 1:04 pm

Barney Frank is a certified Space Shot. First he's all for Fannie(I'm talking about the lending Giant,I'm sure he hasn'
t changed his mind about the other meaning)and Freddie then he wants to abolish them. Not long ago he and his Sugarplum got caught growing weed at his Summer home in Maine and he tells the Cops he wouldn't know what grass looked like if he saw it, now he wants to legalize it. It was like another time a former Boyfriend was running a Male Prostitution Ring out of his Apartment in D.C. and all this twerp could say is "I was suckered". Nitwit.

jbaldy61   September 1st, 2010 - 1:05 pm

Legalize gambling and TAX it, legalize pot and TAX it. TAX TAX TAX TAX TAX.. Barney, you're such a moron. Shut up already. Your days are numbered anyway.

knobby05   September 1st, 2010 - 1:16 pm

why should on line gambling by taxed at all barney ?

GretelIN   September 1st, 2010 - 1:16 pm

Hey wait a minute…did not Barney's boyfriend get caught growing pot (special flowers)? Is it not conflict of interest when he is sponsoring legislation that will line his own pockets…

RUFUS2009   September 1st, 2010 - 1:25 pm

How about charging a same sex relationship federal fee of $100,000 per couple. This would allow them to get on a list for a federal same sex marriage after 2 years. They could then pay $250,000 for a same sex marriage agreement contract and federal permit. And they would have to post a $100,000 bond as long as they are together to be forfeit if they break up or seek to dissolve the agreement. If they petition for a dissolution of the agreement, they should pay a $50,000 fee for the hearing, and a $300,000 divorce fee to end it.

Might bring an end to the same sex marriage deal….and it could be called the Barney Bill.

In Barney's honor, there could be a Senior Discount for fags over 65 of $1.00 off….just like the ferry to Fire Island.

sheapdog420   September 1st, 2010 - 1:38 pm

I'm all for it! And for the people here who are so against it, why?
You are against government spending right? So stop the war on pot. You could use that money spent fighting potheads and pay down the debt.
Don't like Mexican drug gangs? If legal, the best farmers in the world will grow the best cash crop in the world. Mexican drug gangs would go bust, except for harder drugs.
Entrepreneurs, aka Americans, will prosper and the money won't be sent to another country. Why is any of this bad? And for those of you who say "dumming down the masses", have you ever smoked pot? I know business people, lawyers, bankers, politicians (both sides of the aisle), etc. who are very successful. They consider themselves independent, not right or left. They believe in conservative values when it comes to running a business, government, taxes, but when you start preaching prohibition on weed, you lose half the people. They just roll their eyes and tune you out cause they know you are full of @#$% and talking points that have nothing to do with facts and common sense. Prohibition doesn't work. Period.

martifr   September 1st, 2010 - 1:38 pm

Azzmunch. Finding new places from which to extract revenue will do nothing. It's the fed that needs to be made smaller so that they do not steal any more money from the taxpayers.

Diptera   September 1st, 2010 - 1:40 pm

What was it the demento-crats said about using private sector investing for a portion of the Social Security funds? So now they want to pin their hopes on dope-heads and gamblers.

Oh, I forgot it is too late – "we" already have – LOL

conservocop   September 1st, 2010 - 1:42 pm

Tried and tested at Barney's where everything is legal.

NikitaL   September 1st, 2010 - 1:48 pm

It's not too little revenue that's the problem, it's too much government. Less government = less revenue problem. Try that first, Barney.

RightUnite   September 1st, 2010 - 1:56 pm

Here's an idea… Get this queers sorry *ss out of office…. We'll save millions upon millions just with him out of office.

_Son_of_Liberty   September 1st, 2010 - 2:00 pm

How is it that in a country as GREAT as America, there is a small enclave of self-loathing irate caustic blistering-idiots living somewhere in Massachusetts, that hate America so much that they continue to send this disgusting infected bag-of-puss-insult-to-the-human-race to Washington…

This disgusting slobbering genetic mutant is THE DIRECT CAUSE for the melt-down of Fannie Mae by continuing to enable fannie in return for more than $40,000 in campaign donations from Fannie since 1989 (lest we forget that Frank, who is openly gay, had a relationship with Herb Moses, an executive for the now-government controlled Fannie Mae, whom Frank referred to as his “Spouse”).

He is the poster child for criminal politicians and should NEVER be allowed ANYWHERE near government. He should be tried for treason and hung.

Bimmcorp   September 1st, 2010 - 2:02 pm

Wrong again, Bawny. Why don't you just quit spending our money? Problem solved………

BobSalem   September 1st, 2010 - 2:13 pm

Hang on a moment there…are you forgetting aout the rest of the swamp? What about Reid, Pelosi, Biden, Rangle, Schumer, Kerry, Harman, Boxer, Feinstein, Obummer, Rham, et al?

HelloLiars   September 1st, 2010 - 2:13 pm

I say legalize pot, gambling, and prostitution. Government STAY OUT OF MY BUSINESS.

RobertB   September 1st, 2010 - 2:15 pm

How much tax revenue would we get from something that people can grow in their yard?

RobertB   September 1st, 2010 - 2:16 pm

That's the funniest thing I've read all day. Thanks!

SuperCat   September 1st, 2010 - 2:20 pm

should I use my "sperm bank bailout" joke again??? ;)

mustafamonde   September 1st, 2010 - 2:30 pm

You've got to quit being so easy on the guy!

Nitehawk001   September 1st, 2010 - 2:38 pm

Did he forget legalization of prostitution? He is already involved in Gay Prostitution…How do you not know your boy friend is using your house to set up meets for Gay Johns????

everette18294   September 1st, 2010 - 2:45 pm

He states: "What business is it of the government to tell people they can't gamble on the internet". Didn't he use said government to force banks to make housing loans to people that any bank knew wasn't credit worthy.

What business is it of the government to tell people they can't smoke pot and gamble on the internet?
Isn't this one of the lead guys in government passing a law that says it is illegal to not own health insurance?

The hyprocrisy of this man is unbelievable. I'm not sure which is more despicable, Barney Frank or the constitutents who keep sending him back to Congress.

Lightrider   September 1st, 2010 - 2:48 pm

Hey Braawney, suck on this you sick basta#d!!!! You pedophilic, smelly phuck!!! The turds in Massachusetts deserve a fagg@tt to represent there sorry a$$es.

NOQTR4TR8RS   September 1st, 2010 - 2:48 pm

Gambling is already legal. No limits. Ultra high stakes. You can bet everything you own while rubbing shoulders with the richest and most powerful in the world. And the proceeds go to our government for redistribution, or for the purchase of power, access, and influence.

Here's a link to get you started. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street

GTOIA   September 1st, 2010 - 2:50 pm

Isn't this Frank freak degenerate enough? Now he like all his kind want to totally idemoralize the rest of us. Can it be that all the people of Massachusetts are as evil as he is? Why in God's name isn't he kicked out of office? RECALL!

JoseWasabi   September 1st, 2010 - 3:29 pm

I can't stand Barney but I agree we should legalize pot. The 'War on Drugs" is a failed policy, which has cost us $Billions and put good citizens behind bars for smoking a joint. I;ve smoked pot and I drink alcohol, alcohol causes way more problems the pot.
Since the '70's we had our War on Drugs, how much better is it now?

RetiredSailor1   September 1st, 2010 - 3:30 pm

We have legalized gambling in my state and medical marijuana is a booming business here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI9snH4Y9rA

Dick Sicario Las Vegas. NV   September 1st, 2010 - 3:31 pm

It is with the greatest pleasure we can start taking out the garbage November 2, 2010 then follow it up November 6, 2012.
Barneys dribble like this makes the job even easier.

Makkem   September 1st, 2010 - 3:42 pm

Here it comes , local drugstore specials on dope . While Frankypoo has big investments in whoever the concern is preparing and pushing the dope.

smellyfinger   September 1st, 2010 - 3:55 pm

Leave the Government to the Democrats
and you will see the end of America

NunChucks   September 1st, 2010 - 3:57 pm

I got a call from Robert Gibbs and I stand corrected. It was when Barney heard the mention of Fannie AND Freddie… that's when he became very interested in the mortgage industry.

NunChucks   September 1st, 2010 - 4:00 pm

Please be cautious with your wording. When Bawney hears the word bottomless, he becomes very anxious.

GrungyOldVan   September 1st, 2010 - 4:01 pm

Ummm..

Just so you know, Canada doesn't have a revenue stream from weed sales…

btw… The bloom is off the Trudeaupia flower… Only boat people who pay Tamil Tiger boat runners get the benefits of Canadian taxpayer dollars…

btw… in Socialist Toronto the mayor's race is being led by an actual cost cutting Conservative candidate named Rob Ford…

The times they are a changin…

Nochangeleft   September 1st, 2010 - 4:08 pm

I thought he was fagit basturd. Frank can sure huff and blow sometimes.

Nochangeleft   September 1st, 2010 - 4:08 pm

Liberal voters.

lamchops   September 1st, 2010 - 4:17 pm

Yeah Barney,

We also could generate more revenues by pimping little boys to creepy old homosexuals.

ScarySoetoro   September 1st, 2010 - 4:21 pm

I wouldn't recommend online gambling or smoking pot, but I have to agree with this horrible slime bag that it should be legal. There is no more conservative law than the law of God as enumerated in the Old Testament civic laws, and even in God's theocracy "getting high" or drunk was not illegal, nor was gambling. You know your freedoms are fading when the government starts banning plants.

Silhouettes1787   September 1st, 2010 - 4:56 pm

Exactly.

XRMG   September 1st, 2010 - 4:59 pm

I have to say I'm very Libertarian so I think it's up to the individual what they want to do, the government should not be involved in adult choices. I am not a child and they are not my mommy. If fools want to spend their hard earned cash on pot and gambling that's their choice and if they end up going to hell in a hand-basket, that was their choice too – stupid choices are just natures way of thinning the gene pool, government acting as mommy just dumbs down the population.

bobmc2   September 1st, 2010 - 5:37 pm

How about a Tax on "Pitchers and Catchers"?? A "taking it in the ass tax" you fat slobbering bastard!

welovetheUSA   September 1st, 2010 - 5:40 pm

Your dumming down of America is over………………..communist idoit. Gays are soooo Unstable.

water_buffalo   September 1st, 2010 - 5:43 pm

If I was in congress The only new tax I would support would be …. The Barney Frank gerbil tax…. now that might really reduce the deficit

Eileen for Freedom   September 1st, 2010 - 6:15 pm

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Another great stupendous idea out of the mouth of Barney 'the weiner' Frank! Maybe he could add to that list…running a homosexual brothel out of ones house? Oh…I forgot he already did that?

Send him home…America…this is the slug that gave Fannie and Freddie all those great breaks to give all those 'no money down loans' to people who could not afford them…because he had a boyfriend there!

That's a way to lead…through your own sexual desires!
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klgp   September 1st, 2010 - 6:48 pm

If only!

300Mhz   September 1st, 2010 - 6:50 pm

What's wrong with legalizing pot and gambling? Anyone who wants to do either is easily able to do so anyway? Why not tax them like alcohol and cigarettes? They're vices just the same.

As for prostitution? A guy who needs a hummer meets a woman who needs 40 bucks…perfect match! At least places like the Bunny Ranch in Nevada requires clean bills of health of it's employees. Better than a pimp whoopin' on someone.

I hate gambling and think paying for sex is stupid ( unless you're into some kinky stuff the avarage person isn't into),…but Pot being illegal while booze is not, is just stubborn to a fault. 15 year old kids can score drugs easier than cigarettes.

Keeping these activities illegal is creating more victims that the other way around.

You can argue this,…but you'd be wrong.

gwar5   September 1st, 2010 - 7:01 pm

It is said that Barney Frank has a tattoo above his butt that says, "pay as you enter." We could pay off the national debt if if he paid tax.
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Launch Site   September 1st, 2010 - 7:08 pm

I thought both were already legal. Hey don't throw out the baby with the bathwater, I say.

Keltic1   September 1st, 2010 - 7:18 pm

How about about starting with a BUDGET? Then maybe balancing it. These guys are worse than pirates.

boriqua   September 1st, 2010 - 7:44 pm

Grung, I'm glad to hear that times are a-changin.

Here is how the weed revenue stream works. Canadian drug dealers spend their ill gotten gains creating reportable income for Canadian business which is then taxed. Each transaction is also taxed via various national and provincial sales taxes. The government thereby skims off its piece of the marijuana income pie. This would explain why the Canadian government doesn't seriously enforce marijuana prohibition. They don't bite the hand that feeds them.

But just wait until we legalize the nasty weed. American knowhow will produce the best marijuana in the world. We will take the Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam away from the perennial winner BC Bud. Sorry about that. You'll have to find another money stream to fund your socialism.

Are you up in Vancouver? I love that city.

barkingbird   September 1st, 2010 - 7:44 pm

Why isn't this thing in an orange jump suit…..I think he would like prison, a lot ….

barkingbird   September 1st, 2010 - 7:44 pm

AMEN

barkingbird   September 1st, 2010 - 7:48 pm

You want your wife and children on the highway with people driving high. Don't you think we have enough problems with people driving drunk now !!!!!!!

Baloshka   September 1st, 2010 - 8:16 pm

Queers should be beheaded immediately.

HeReturnsSoon   September 1st, 2010 - 9:13 pm

Yup, he sounds like a conservative. LOL

HeReturnsSoon   September 1st, 2010 - 9:15 pm

Al Gore and Barney Franks should spend the rest of their lives together in the same prison cell.

alwaysright5   September 1st, 2010 - 10:04 pm

Barneys will also open a gay bordello,, or may be he already has.

mickrussom   September 1st, 2010 - 10:19 pm

Better Idea, remove all faggot criminal traitor fucking scum from Government.

ScarySoetoro   September 1st, 2010 - 10:29 pm

wow, are we actually agreeing on something? Pot, gambling, prostitution… none of this was outlawed even in the Old Testament theocracy. If one is more "conservative" than God, then one is too conservative. Legalize it!

ScarySoetoro   September 1st, 2010 - 10:29 pm

not a bad idea.

The_Businessman   September 1st, 2010 - 11:12 pm

The left wants to use gambling to raise money while criticizing Wall Street for being gambling, after they said the housing market was just fine.

clamdigger53   September 1st, 2010 - 11:46 pm

STOP SPENDING!

jackazzflatts   September 2nd, 2010 - 2:29 am

Frank is a stoner and a pimp

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