With all the attention that the online poker rooms and casinos have received lately from the government in their attempt to squash any attempts to generate revenue from Internet gaming and gambling rooms, it is difficult to believe that the United States government can actually have more legislation up their sleeve or waiting in the wings.  But unfortunately, this is the case.  As the online poker rooms and casinos become more and more popular, the United States government makes more and more effort to regulate them out of business, as the amount of legislation and laws that are aimed towards hampering the abilities of online poker rooms and casinos to do business in the United States keeps increasing at an exponential rate.  The latest in the battle against online poker rooms and casinos is the taxation that has been discussed that will focus on the online poker room and Casino players, rather than the websites themselves.

This is the first incident of the United States government even considering targeting players rather than the establishment itself in the extended effort to combat the online poker room and Casino explosion in popularity in the United States.  With this tax, leveled at online poker room and Casino players, it becomes apparent that the United States government has at least come around to the idea that there is a significant amount of tax revenue available in these types of online poker rooms and casinos.  Unfortunately, they are less than enthusiastic about properly leveraging this source of revenue, and more concerned with simply hampering the player's ability to participate.

Until the United States government adopts a more reasonable and lenient approach to online poker rooms and casinos, the full potential of these incredibly profitable moneymaking devices will very likely go untapped.  Despite the obvious success of this type of business model in foreign locations such as Antigua, Aruba and Costa Rica, the United States government simply is not concerned with trying to come to some type of compromise and seems fixated on putting the multitude of online poker rooms and casinos on the Internet out of business.  As long as the United States government keeps fighting the online poker rooms and casinos, the tremendous levels of income that could potentially be garnered through these types of gambling and gaming websites is completely squandered and benefits foreign countries rather than America.