Envisioning a Profitable Future
With a new administration on it way in the door in the United States, proponents
of a licensed and regulated online casino gambling market are begin to clamor
with advice…and now has actually never been a better time. With the US economy
still struggling one media columnist from the Chicago Tribune, Mary Schmich,
opined that taxing the online casinos rather than banning the companies is a
very profitable way for the new administration to bring in the revenue needed to
implement all of that “change” rhetoric that was so prominent in the Obama
campaign.
There is certainly money in the online casino gambling industry, there is no
doubting that. The global market is worth billions and analysts predict that
global gaming revenues will surge even higher in the coming five years. And a
big problem that many journalists and supporters of the industry mention is the
fact that the UIGEA is ineffective and that the US has already spent the past
two years missing out on the potential tax revenues from the illegal online
casino gambling market that is prevalent all over the US.
Schmich’s column provided a lighter view on the potential revenue from taxing
the online casinos – she opines, "I'd like our incoming president to bring us an
image of grasping a profitable global cyber vision.” Her recent column was
certainly supportive of the new administration and will turn off any die-hard
conservatives with her reference to our current government as the “lame-duck
Bush administration.” The column though does make some very important points and
largely just emphasizes that US online casino gambling is an eventuality anyways
and the Obama admin should just embrace it now and benefit from the tax
revenues. |