| | |  | Last Updated: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 |  | | | New Developments in US Online Gambling
- Sunday, 7 May 2006
The USA has made online gambling one of the biggest issues outside of wars and increasing gas prices. But yet it seems that no one in the government has been able to come to any good decisions or conclusions regarding the world of online gambling. It seems that the battle over Internet poker and casino gambling is one of those never-ending sagas that plays like a Shakespearean tragedy. Most of the attention, though, has been focused on the different approaches that national governments have taken toward the growth of the online industry.
Some European nations, in a “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” approach, have started their own state-sponsored gambling sites, with ramifications on the international scale that has previously been reported. Here in the United States, it has almost become a yearly rite of passage to have some sort of legislation making its way through the halls of Congress. While most attention of proponents of a legalized and regulated online gambing industry have been focused on this, other events have seemingly silently taken place behind the scenes.
Perhaps it was the intent of Congress to allow this to happen. This ticklish issue, which is a subject that the federal government would like to avoid, is one that more than likely could be handled at the state government level in the minds of elected officials in the Congress of the United States, thus alleviating the pressure on national leaders. With everyone focused on the efforts of several senators and representatives in Washington, DC, the state of Washington stepped to the forefront of the online gambling issue and has adopted laws against online poker and gaming inside the borders of the Evergreen State.
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