North Dakota Wants Online Gambling Casinos in Business

North Dakota Wants Online Gambling Casinos in Business/ September 2006
While the rest of the United States waits for the outcome of the two internet gambling bills to be passed in congress, North Dakota is planning to keep online gambling sites in business by regulating and bringing the industry to the State.

North Dakota State Republican Jim Kasper has said publicly that he doesn't understand "what all the fuss is about" and believes that the people of America have a right to chose how they spend their free time – especially in their own homes, if they want to spend money in online gambling casinos then that is their business.

In the next session of the North Dakota Legislature Kasper plans to introduce bills that will legalise online gambling casinos, in particular online poker sites.

The poker online gambling casinos will have to use North Dakota's state owned bank in order to protect players' money and to put a stop to money laundering. The state also requires that the poker online gambling casinos will have systems in place that disallows minors from gambling and also allows the state to keep a check on individuals who may have gambling problems.

North Dakota will collect taxes from the poker online gambling casinos that will go towards reducing property taxes. Kasper believes that states have a right to cash in on some of the huge gambling revenues that leave United States soil, to offshore online gambling casinos.

This is the second time that Kasper has tried to make internet gambling viable in North Dakota. Last year he was successful in passing his proposal in the State House but then failed in the State Senate. Kasper claims that the Department of Justice wrote a damning letter to North Dakota's Attorney General that had misinformation about the Wire Act in it, stating that the bill applies to all internet gambling.

Kasper wants to know why the Senate wishes to extend the Wire Act to all forms of gambling. He believes as do many others that American Citizens have the right to decide what pastimes they pursue from the comfort of their own homes.