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I posted this earlier on another site but want more opinions so I will ask at all my forums. Don't go getting all hissy, it doesn't mean you aren't special (in some cases even SPEEEEEEEECIAL) it just means I want a wide veriety of opinions.

I have asked this as a question and said it as a statement but I just don't understand WHY the U.S. government can't recognize the potential windfall from legalizing and taxing online gambling in all forms.

Just imagine for a moment. Brick and mortar establishments in Vegas could open their own sites and be endorsed, as well as promoted by a lessor tax rate for those using them. Sportsbooks outside the U.S. border would be legal to U.S. citizens as well but at a higher taxaton rate.

I realize MANY are not in favor of taxation but think about the benefits for a second.

(1) It would be make tranactions easier to and from.
(2) Potentially it would develope a REAL and trusted watchdog with legal authority to intervene when anything fishy developes.
(3) As already stated it would be a windfall of revenue for tax based revenues.

I guess I am naive but I simply can not wrap my head around the continued Moral delima preventing this from becoming a reality.

I would love to hear from someone with experience, knowledge or even an opinion on this.
 
I guess I am naive but I simply can not wrap my head around the continued Moral delima preventing this from becoming a reality.
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The moral bs is really funny since there is legal gambling in every state. Lotto has a 50% hold. Damn sports books and there 4.5%.

I wish I could explain it too you, but it's just another thing in the long lines of bull shit that emits from all over the USA and it's government.
 
It's less to do with the moral aspect (although that is the justification given) and more due to the fact that politicians are paid a lot of money from domestic gambling to maintain the status quo. If you open up gambling, the offshore players will not only get a share of the sportsbook market but also take away the existing market share of the domestic casinos. The players here (the gaming owners, the politicians and even the states who take a 50% hold in lotteries) all like the way things work far too much to risk full legalisation.
 
I know gamblers are a lazy lot, but maybe a well written letter explaining how much revenue legalizing it could bring in, posted to all sports gambling forums, followed with a list of reps and addresses.

I'm sure Washington would be deluged and be inspired to change the law. <---only half sarcastic.

Remember that golden age when it was still legal? Mr. X and I lived in an RV in Golden Colorado one baseball season, made the bets and spent the rest of the day laying in the sun and playing in the river. We worked it out this season not to have to be in Vegas, but damn, so much more convoluted.
 
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I know gamblers are a lazy lot, but maybe a well written letter explaining how much revenue legalizing it could bring in, posted to all sports gambling forums, followed with a list of reps and addresses.

I'm sure Washington would be deluged and be inspired to change the law. <---only half sarcastic.
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I'd say that changing Washington is far more important than changing a gambling bill and the population don't seem to be too interested in doing anything about that.
 
I've spent far too many years of my life avoiding politics. Only since 911 have I started paying closer attention and researching so I am part of the problem. I would like to think we as a nation have a voice and if enough of those voices were to unite then something could be done but unfortunately too many politicians either have their heads up their collective asses or their ears are stuffed with special interest cash. Either way slogans like We The People and Home of the Free are meaningless.
 
Certainly the moral reasons are way down on the list. They probably haven't figured out a great way to transfer public $ to powerful interests through on-line gambling yet. Maybe they're afraid the $ will go to foreign shysters in Costa Rica instead of local ones. Or they don't have a good way of recording, tracking or taxing the various shit that may pop up.
 
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