Online Casino Gambling Confusion: 1
There are certainly issues with the 2006 Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement
Act (UIGEA), and it seems that everyone is willing to accept the fact that
alternative legislation is necessary except the Senator backing the Act, Jon Kyl.
Senator Jon Kyl criticized the government and those looking to impede passing
online casinos gambling regulations to support the UIGEA for the delays. Within
the Act the specifics specified that the support regulations should be finished
and implemented in just 270 days… that deadline has come and go many months
past, but for good reason: many speculate that the UIGEA is simply unenforceable
in its current format largely because the Act fails to actually define illegal
online casinos gambling.
Senator Kyl expressed his impatience with the delays in an interview with the
Las Vegas Review Journal, and the online casinos and poker gambling industries
responded with equal impatience right back at Kyl’s comments. The Poker Players
Alliance is a prominent force in the political climate at this point in time
with hundreds of thousands spent lobbying politicians and Congress to really
look into the current online casinos gambling policy in the United States.
To that end, the PPA director in Las Vegas, Ken Illgen, had some choice words
for Senator Kyl: "This law is clearly unworkable, as regulators, bankers and
several members of Nevada's congressional delegation have publicly stated.” And
Illgen certainly couldn’t leave out the fact that few politicians and others in
the land and online casinos gambling industry even wanted the UIGEA passed
through Congress. Illgen remarks, "Frankly, the confusion regulators are dealing
with as they develop the regulations to enforce the law is a direct result of
how this act was written and sneaked into a must-pass port security bill in the
dead of night, allowing no time for review and debate." |