Americans In favor of US making Online Casinos Legal
20 December 2005

It is well known that while online gambling is popular among US citizens, currently online casinos are illegal in the US, and therefore no American online casino site exists. The online casino issue has always been a constant hot topic within the US government, and now American online casino players are expressing their opinions.

The readers of the popular next-generation media site, Scooop.net, have voted in favor of US online casinos being able to operate and take part in the multi-billion dollar online gambling industry. The outcome of this vote was based on a two thirds majority that believed online gambling should be made legal in the United States. This study was performed by Scooop.net, and was done in order to find out the level of support of Americans who wanted the current online casino gaming laws changed.

It is interesting to note that those readers who voted in Scoop.net’s study, also pointed out that they would feel more secure if they played at an online casino that was operated under US regulations. That being the case, this fact could imply that if the US were to allow American based online casinos, they would attract many of their own citizens to their sites, as they would feel more comfortable playing at a casino they feel they could trust implicitly.

If the US government ever chooses to legalize online gambling in America, there is no question that they would certainly profit from this move. In fact, it has been estimated that the United States government could have easily collected tax revenues from online gambling, amounting to a whopping $1.8 billion dollars – and that’s only including American players! However, time will only tell if the US government cracks their current legislation to cash in on the industry they’ve been snubbing for so long.