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Up for Debate on Casinos in the US
The referendum in Rhode
Island has released its result and many people are disappointed
with the announcement that law makers have made. The referendum
that was only supposed to address the issue of online casinos
and the fact that online casinos are illegal in the United
States, ended up discussing the issue of land based casinos as
well. The issue with land based casinos that the casino felt was
important to address was whether or not constitutional rights
have been infringed on by allowing a reserve in Warwick to run
their own casino. The final decision of the referendum was that
West Warwick could not operate its own casino because it would
allow the town to govern its own casinos which is not allowed in
the United States.
Canada is a different example in which towns like Niagara or
Native reserves are allowed to operate their own casinos as long
as the federal government still has preceding rights. This has
worked well in Canada and the US was getting together in the
referendum to ask themselves if they could follow the same suit
as Canada.
Big names associated with this referendum include Carcieri and
Lynch who were the operators and speaking voices of the
referendum. Their decision to not allow casinos to be operated
privately in Native reserves has been met with some hostility
from the local citizens as this would have allowed them autonomy
as well as revenue.
The next referendum about this topic will be the one involving
online casinos. Native reserves are said to be interested in
allowing online casinos to operate from their land. Ad of right
now, online casinos operate out of Antigua and Bahamas and the
small towns in the United States think that by allowing them to
operate out of the small towns, there will be many benefits. To
this date, no referendum has allowed the establishment of online
casinos out of the United States or Canada and referendums
happen monthly with lobbyists who state that not allowing online
casinos to be operated is an infringement on freedom. Online
casinos are a big money business and the countries that have
allowed them to operate have gained revenue in the years that
they are operating the online casinos. Online casinos generate
billions of dollars yearly including online casinos sports
betting sites and online casinos style bingo and poker rooms. In
an industry that is expanding and making so much money so
quickly, it is only natural that cities and people want a piece
of the cake. However, there are those that feel that online
casinos brings about crime and addiction and would rather not
have that type of revenue being operated from their towns. It
seems that the issue of online casinos is a controversial one
where people have very differing opinions on the matter. Online
casinos is a growing industry and this will be a topic for law
makers over the next few years.
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