A valid argument could probably be made that the fewer things the Feds oversee, the better after a few months of watching the Obamacare debacle unfold in the U.S. And for those who have been waiting and watching for the government that is federal make some definitive moves regarding unilateral poker legislation, if you’ve been holding your breath, now may be a good time to exhale.

Factions Means Inaction

At the core of the inaction like most things in US politics really are a selection of factions so all over the map that it may be hard to ever get consensus that could be acceptable to all fifty states. Clearly, states like Nevada, New Jersey and Delaware where not just land, but now online gambling have already been legalized within those states’ edges have vastly different outlooks on gambling than states like Utah, where absolutely no gambling whatsoever is legal. So that as Internet gambling has proved to very nearly always be an ‘add on’ to your brick-and-mortar kind from a regulatory status, maybe it’s a complex web to create regulatory bodies in states that have little or no experience with even the land casino industry.

Simply look at Massachusetts to observe a neophyte gaming commission can trip over its feet that are own an attempt to be always a tad over-zealous, and that’s just a land commission; the problems that spring up online are even more complex, as countless things are harder to verify with certainty with regards to online players and thus, liability.

Legislation Keeps roadblocks that are meeting

That has been sort of the concept behind Representative Joe Barton’s (R-Texas) HR 2666 (perhaps a portend of its apparently doomed status in those numbers); the Internet Poker Freedom Act of 2013 was to enable individual states to opt out of any federal legislation. It’s been noted that the now-softened-by-subsequent-judicial-interpretations Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 went through was because it rode in on a bigger bill that ended up being fueled by post-9/11 fervor; most experts within the field agree that it would have never ever passed had it been presented under its fire power. In fact, Virginia and Iowa Republican Congressmen (respectively) Bob Goodlatte and Jim Leach had been attempting to push through a federal anti-gambling mandate with HR 4411 for quite awhile before UIGEA sailed quietly through, and never could get sufficient support to produce it happen.

Another issue that keeps this a continuing state vs. federal problem is simply plain money-related. Whereas the states who are interested in poker and, in some instances, general online casino passage, have financial stake in doing therefore, for the Feds, it would you need to be another policing headache, although no doubt when they put the IRS in the case, they would figure out an easy method to suck some revenue from individual state coffers.

However the compelling revenues for states is always greater compared to the Feds, even itself a de facto black American Express card, so revenue means much less when ‘balanced budget’ has become a pretty meaningless concept at the White House if they manage to pull money from state online gaming, and that reason is simple: states have to live on fixed amd capped budgets; the federal government simply issues.

From the regulatory viewpoint you know nothing about and have no experience managing as we have, once again, seen with the federal nosedive into healthcare implementation it’s hard to oversee something. It is not surprising that Nevada and New Jersey the two states with the earliest and a lot of experienced land casino presence in America were during the forefront for the online poker and casino movements; their existing regulatory systems already have actually rules and regs in place, making it easier to increase those systems to a format that is online.

Will the Feds ever step in and police the whole morass? Perhaps, but it will most likely not be before the states have actually unveiled their individual systems to a lot more encompassed degree.

Ideally, before that happens, the government that is federal find out several lessons the hard way when it comes to mandating how things must certanly be done without actually having a clue how to do them first.