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Wanting State Rights

The United States is on the brink of passing new gambling laws that would legalize internet gambling at the federal government level thus repealing the UIGEA and allowing offshore gambling companies access to the US market. The UIGEA affects the US as a whole, but still allows each individual state to pass some of their own policies and laws as long as they are intrastate laws that do not allow gambling across state lines. This is a key piece of the federal laws that have allowed state governments to consider the legalization of online casinos and then reap the tax profits off of these gambling companies and sectors of the market.

The Attorney General of Indiana has sent a letter of objection to the US House Ways and Means Committee because he stands up for his state's right to decide which forms of online casino gambling should be legalized in the state. These states are looking for ways to boost the funds coming into the state coffers and expanding gambling offerings is a fairly easy and lucrative way for the states to accomplish this task. Attorney General Greg Zoeller is protecting the state rights concerning the online casinos and does not want the federal government to pass any laws that would preempt those rights and usurp individual state laws. This attitude is actually shared by many politicians in the US who feel like federal level internet gambling would give the government too much power in the situation.

Similarly, there are concerns that federal oversight over the online casinos and betting sectors would create less control in the market. The NFL is dead-set against the federal legalization of internet betting in the US and has also sent a letter and expressed this viewpoint to the US House Ways and Means Committee. These state objections are valid only to an extent because they overlook the fact that state level legalized gambling does not address the influx and availability of offshore internet casino sites.