Which is the Bad Guy?
When the US Illegal Internet Gambling Act is taking over the news with stories of money and the Internet, many are questioning what the real difference between Internet gambling and online commerce is.
Imagine two people hanging in their workplaces both risking their money online, one is breaking the law, the other is not. One of these men is a daily seller, and no matter how you look at this, this person is risking his money for the possibility to to raise his income. I guess that both these men are using the Internet for the same cause. Though, the last is now taking part in an unlawful business. Why unlawful? For the reason that Government of the USA is not getting a cent of the revenues from the the army of online gamblers. It only gets tax money from the day trader.
Daily Americans lose billions of dollars on trading marketable investments, which are not situated in Wall Street offices, but from their family rooms. that type of simple men are not highly-qualified stock dealers, and they do not have any license - despite all this they face no official difficulties to carry on their illegal business.
In reality, the single factual difference between online commerce and online gaming is the the scale of investments the US Government receives from the industries: Online commerce = large revenues; Online Gambling = no money and lots of casino bonuses for gamblers. There is much speculation that the US Congress is working on the anti-gambling online forbidding law for the exact reason that the country is not profiting from millions of dollars spent daily.
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