Who's the Bad Guy?

Since the US Illegal Internet Gambling Act is taking over the news with stories of finances and the world wide web, so many people are asking themselves what the actual difference between Internet gambling and online commerce is.

Two people are hanging in their agencies both of them risk their money online, while one of them is breaking the law, at the same time the other one is not. One of them is a daily merchant, and in spite of how you look at it, that businessman is risking his funds for the possibility to raise his revenues. I believe that both these men use the Internet for one reason. Yet, the last is at the moment participating in a dishonest business. Why prohibited? Since Government of the US is not getting a single cent of the income from the the army of online gamblers. It only levies tax money from the day e-seller.

Each day residents of America lose several million dollars on dealing with paper holdings, not located in Wall Street business offices, but from their lounges. Those common men are not highly-qualified stock brokers, and they do not hold any license - in spite of all this they do not have any legal obstacles to risking their money online.

To tell the truth, the one single actual differing feature between e-commerce and online gaming is the amount of profits the US Government receives from the businesses: Day trading = lots of money; Gambling on Internet = not a single cent and lots of casino bonuses for gamblers. It is said that the US Congress passed the anti-gambling online ban for the exact reason that the country is not getting any revenues of the millions spent each day.

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