Online gambling, which was established first time in 1994, is one of the most popular entertainment; also, it is a billion-dollar-industry, ignoring it’s benifits, many countries still ban it or don’t license it because of risk about laudring money and bad society effects. Rather, I agree partly to introduct legaly online gambling with stronger law.
First, govement has a big tax income from online gambling. Gambling sites attract players over the world with many kinds like sport bet, hold’em, poker or bingo. According to Nasdad, in 2013, the Nevada Gaming Control Board reported that a record $98.9 billion was bet on NFL and NBA, especialy there are $ 10 billion that was bet on a match between two top NFL teams worldwide. Besides, taxes on gambling and online gambling provide that the winners have to pay 2% at least and 25% at max and the hosts have to pay 5% incomes per year. It is noticeable to calculate the income. However, mafia and criminal groups often use online gambling and base on virtual accounts to launder money. Goverment should compel the hosts to identity players with ID card code, driver license code or pastport code. Moreover, tax authorities should check and monitor the money source of sites. Gangster would be eliminated with above solutions.
Second, online gambling would solve the unemployment problems. To creat a global gambling site needs many staffs, especialy skilled workers and IT engineers. They will work to manage games, remote players and oversee them to ban cheaters, sometimes IT engineers also force hackers attacking the site.Nowsaday, when technology is developing every hours, studing IT trend is more than past. It means that there are many IT engineers as well as many employment demands. Fortunely, the developing of online learning has cleaned them. On the other hands, unskilled unemployeds are very hard to find jobs in online gambling.
In shot, online gambling is likely many internet phenomenoms; we can’t ban, can’t stop them rise. Goverment can strengthen the laws in order to get online gambling become a legal service, which creates many possitive economic effects.