US Legalizing Online Poker?
There is some good news coming out of the United States’ seemingly warming to legalizing poker online playing, and online gaming in general. As I have written, and you may have read, many U.S. Congressman are backing a bill to legalize online poker use gambling in the country. Now, it seems that is inspiring online poker confidence in other countries as well. According to The Guardian newspaper, Britain’s online gambling industry appears optimistic that moves in the United States may lead to regulation of online gaming. British companies suffered a big shock when online gambling was rendered impossible by 2006 legislation that made transfer of funds illegal, the report said. British companies changed their focus to other parts of the world, but never fully recovered from this economic blow, The Guardian reported. I have long said that legalizing online poker is only a good thing for governments. Once you legalize it, you can regulate it and tax it and that provides a whole new revenue stream for your coffers. Only puritan-like stubbornness and the mentality that gambling is evil and other puritan-like stubbornness ideas prevents this from happening. And again, according to The Guardian newspaper, Britain’s online gambling industry appears optimistic that moves in the United States may lead to regulation of online gaming.