Home	Tutorial	Online Casino Reviews	Best Online Casinos	Casino Software	Casino News

Online Casino Gambling --- Casino News

A Rational Voice

There may be hope for the United States’ online casino gambling industry – the Bush administration has wreaked havoc international gambling companies and strained trade relations between the U.S. and several other major countries (namely Antigua and the 27 members of the EU). But just today a rational voice stood out, Frank Catania is speaking out publicly to representatives for the various state governments, encouraging that the states embrace the online casinos industry rather than fight the inevitable. Citing the pervasiveness of the industry, as well as the huge potential revenue from internet online gambling activities Catania was adamant that the U.S. could do better than the current ineffective internet casinos ban.

Catania is an Independent director of the UK player advocacy group, eCOGRA, as well as a former Assistant Attorney General and Director a the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement. Today Catania spoke with state lawmakers from U.S. gaming states and addressed the online casino gambling issue. Catania firmly believes that the United States will license and regulate internet gambling once the Republicans are out of office. The Bush administration has spearheaded the effort to block and ban offshore online casinos from accessing U.S. gamblers, but the UGIEA is largely ineffective. Catania comments, “The online gaming market will continue to expand regardless of any decision to regulate. Consumer demand and industry growth will force governments to act.”

For that reason, Catania is urging the U.S. state governments to look into online casino gambling regulations now and support the opening of the U.S. market. Catania’s address at the annual National Council of Legislators from Gaming States took place in Napa, California and analyzed the internet casinos debate from all sides. The U.S. gamblers will find a way to gamble – they are currently gambling at even though the UIGEA supposedly blocks online gambling transactions. Instead the state governments could receive millions each year in internet gambling tax.