I completely agree with your thoughts Deblau. This law is absolutely ridiculous. The only solution for gambling in the United States is legalization and taxation. The government would make a tremendous amount of money in taxes. Online gambling is much safer than betting with a local bookie. First off, you know you are going to get paid. I must say that I really don't think that betting with a credit card is acceptable with online gambling. Before books would take credit cards, you had to have the money up front to bet with. The advantage to online gambling was that you could only bet with what money you had up front. If you bet with your neighborhood bookie, you can easily get in over your head by betting with money that you do not have up front. However, debit cards should be allowed and Visa, Mastercard, whomever should get their fair cut. Nobody forces anyone to gamble, and nobody should be able to tell you that you cannot. This law will most certainly not stop gambling as it goes on all day every day in the United States even without the Internet. The government should make their fair cut and leave it be. They are just trying to keep people from putting their money in another country's economy. This law is ridiculous and will most certainly not solve anything. Thanks for reading, and have a good night everyone.
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I completely agree with your thoughts Deblau. This law is absolutely ridiculous. The only solution for gambling in the United States is legalization and taxation. The government would make a tremendous amount of money in taxes. Online gambling is much safer than betting with a local bookie. First off, you know you are going to get paid. I must say that I really don't think that betting with a credit card is acceptable with online gambling. Before books would take credit cards, you had to have the money up front to bet with. The advantage to online gambling was that you could only bet with what money you had up front. If you bet with your neighborhood bookie, you can easily get in over your head by betting with money that you do not have up front. However, debit cards should be allowed and Visa, Mastercard, whomever should get their fair cut. Nobody forces anyone to gamble, and nobody should be able to tell you that you cannot. This law will most certainly not stop gambling as it goes on all day every day in the United States even without the Internet. The government should make their fair cut and leave it be. They are just trying to keep people from putting their money in another country's economy. This law is ridiculous and will most certainly not solve anything. Thanks for reading, and have a good night everyone.