Ohio Senator
Tough on Casino Issue
The United States
has always been motivated to end the industry of online casinos
from taking over in the US. The reason for the US hostility is
due to many reasons stemming from moral issues, safety issues as
well as economic reasons. The United States feels that gambling
brings crime and the land based casinos are easier to control
then online casinos. Online casinos have had a history of having
incidences relating to them such as suicides and robberies and
the United States says that they are worried they will not be
able to control the situation as it is harder to track online
casinos then land based ones due to their nature and quantity.
The US Senator George
Voinovich from Ohio states that gaming is problematic because of
the addiction and lack of citizen safety it brings about.
Supporters argue that online casinos cause gambling addiction
far worse than land based casinos because intervention is harder
to administer and gambling addicts to the online casinos may
remain unnoticed. George Voinovich stated last Monday that he
plans to really out up a fight about online casinos and in this
indirectly reminds US citizens that gaming from online casinos
in the US is forbidden. Voinovich feels that the disadvantages
of gaming outweigh the advantages.
This comes at a time
where the Ohio gambling supporters are planning to try to pass a
law called Learn and Earn which allows gambling operators to
have full freedom when it comes to building casinos and
operating the casinos and especially the utilization of slot
machines that are said to bring in over 2 billion dollars a
year. Voinovich has put into question whether or not the
citizens of Ohio will benefit from this economic prosperity or
if it will only be a benefit for the gambling operators.
Online casinos lobbyists
have tried to convince Ohio senator and many other senators
around the US that online casinos can in fact generate more
positive results then land based ones. So far, the argument I
favor of online casinos is not as strong as it needs to be in
order to produce legalized online casinos. As of right now it is
illegal not only to open online casinos in the US but it is also
illegal to game in online casinos from the US. This is a hard
thing to control but law makers have said that this error due to
online casino will be looked into at the next meeting about
online casino. Online casino from all around the world have
argues that the revenue online casinos generate, especially if
they were to be run out of US soil would be in the multi
billions. Despite the amount of money online casinos generates,
the US is still not willing to be pro online gaming rooms
anytime soon. The battle on this industry also includes the
online poker rooms and online bingo halls as well and will
target online sports betting soon.
