Washington’s consideration of two measures during the upcoming Lame Duck session of Congress are classic examples of everything wrong with the legislative process. When New Jersey, Delaware and Nevada legalized online gaming, Adelson turned to Washington to legislate the state laws away. The “Coalition To Stop Online Gambling” suddenly sprouted up and argued that Internet gambling makes every smartphone and table a casino. The crony group demanded that Congress pass Tenth Amendment-violating legislation known as RAWA (Restore America’s Wire Act) to impose a federal ban on online gaming. What the group fails to mention is that a quick Google search shows that dozens, if not hundreds, of online gambling sites are housed off-shore, and the RAWA bill fails to touch these unregulated sites.

Source: Forbes November 27, 2016 23:41 UTC