For many people, the US government’s decision to ban online gambling is probably a little confusing. After all, the US is home to Las Vegas and Atlantic City, two of the biggest gambling centers in the world. So why would they be one of only a small handful of countries to ban gambling online? The answer, it appears, is money. To start at the beginning, the ban was first proposed by Bob Goodlatte, a lawmaker from Virginia. His claim was that online gambling would lead to the corruption of America’s

youth. This is a claim that has been used to keep Americans from anything from playing at an online casino to listening to certain types of music. It’s an easy claim to make, since it’s basically impossible to either prove or disprove. If we take a closer look though, we begin to see the real reasons. Goodlatte’s election campaign was run using more that sixty thousand dollars of money donated by the local horse racing industry, and this is just the tip of the iceberg. Americans are really being blocked from playing JackpotCity casino games to protect America’s gigantic gambling industry, and America’s young people were never really considered. There is also the matter of tax revenue. Since most online operators are overseas, it was difficult for any of the money changing hands to be taxed, and the US government decided that they would rather have no gambling at all than have gambling they couldn’t make money from.