Question for USA Players ONLY (PLEASE!)

[Rollo]

The truth is at a macroeconomic level, it will help becuase consuption is pretty consistent so it would be assumed that US gamblers would spend this extra income on something else, maybe not even gambling, there domestically.

Still, we need to put this all in prespective, the 12 billion or so that online gambling sites take in a year wouldn't cover the bill for Iraq for more than a week... and that's revenue, not the much smaller portion the US goverment would actually receive in taxes. (I'm assuming that the online gaming sites would repartriate most profits so we wouldn't considere the benefits of FDI, multiplier effects and that).

Any way you look at it, online gambling is very small potatoes given the enormity of the multi-trillion dollar US economy.

[amatrine]

I agree. I personally think it was added just for the sake of pocketing some extra money, from those who oppose online gambling , to promote and protect thier own interests.

Its big to us becuase it effects us. Fritz gets some extra pocket money,
and hopes for a higher republican vote.

Ama

[silkprint]

I agree . Someone decided that only heathens gamble online so noone should . If you even mention online gambling to some people they stick their nose up without even knowing what it is about . We are whole online communities .
Years ago I worked in a store where people would spend their whole paychecks on government sponsered lottery scratch off tickets . Here in Massachusetts we don't have slot machines but walk into any store and there are over 85 different scratch tickets hanging up . We also have a different jackpot game every night be it Megamillions , Megabucks ect .