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US no longer able to gamble online.

Well it seems that the lovely President is getting his way after all with banks starting to make it impossible to fund online gaming accounts like Neteller, Moneybookers, Click2Pay etc etc. Most Credit card processors will if they have not already, follow suit (for US based only), and it seems the only possible way to get around this will be to fund your account with Real Cash via Western Union / Money Transfer. Or, will the banks start limiting how much cash of your own cash you can withdraw from an ATM. Of course, the Western Union / Money Transfer branches could I suppose limit transactions - but this is not something I've ever used. What will be next? Well as I'm sure most already figured, this was NEVER a moral issue - it's all about MONEY! The US not earning taxes from gaming outside the US. I see a few possibilites in the future:- 1. The US will start having their own (US hosted) gambling sites from whereby they can be sure of getting taxes from the casino operators (this could of course include deals with the existing casinos in the states where it is still legal to spend your money) lol. This would of course be 'sold' to the US public as a well-timed (we do listen to our citizens) and yes you can gamble (but only at Regulated US places). Of course, it would have been better if they just regulated online gambling play in the first place - which would have been the case if it REALLY was done for moral or addiction reasons. 2. Other ways of getting cash from one place to another (taking the whole issue much more underground and - let's hope not - although it would teach the government a lesson about regulation vs. prohibition). 3. Those that have already been sickened by previous actions of their government might look into moving for good to another country - like - well pretty much anyway other than US lmao. I guess with all things, time will tell - and until it does.. I'll leave this somewhat depressing subject for the US folk. Good luck is all I can really say and if someone doesn't stop them taking everything away - what will you be able to / not be able to do with your own money next year? ;) BG PS. I've left this item open for comments, Well at least until we get our first Spammer). Now THAT's one thing the Government could work on - IDIOT SPAMMERS... Let's see who's first.. lol