Over the weekend, Congress did their best to ban online gambling, making it illegal for banks to process money used for such a purpose. This new bill (which should become law soon), cost the industry billions of dollars and will make it very hard for casual sports bettors like myself (I play a few $5 bets a month) to have fun betting on the football games.
The way this law was passed is also very odious. Most of The Senate did not want to pass this legislation, but a few Senators like Bill Frist added it to a bill to enhance port security, so the only way to vote against the ban on gaming would be to vote against port security. Congress uses large bills like these to do everything from banning gaming to giving some hick a million dollars to study the feces production of catfish.
888.com has already suspended betting operations in the US and most others are probably going to follow soon. So now living in America means that you are in one of the only countries that will not allow you to place a bet online!!!
Of course Congress is just as corrupt as any other organization, so they are allowing gambling online for state lotteries and horse racing, since those industries have already filled the Congressmen's pockets with money.
2 comments:
You are right. They shouldn't ban internet gambling. That's total bullshit.
There's no way they'll be able to effectively enforce such a law.
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