In the US it's simple: follow the money and take a look at who needs to get reelected. It's all about appearing to do something so you can get votes and stay in power. God we need congressional term limits (this ONE thing would instantly fix SO many problems).
US is full of gamblers and state sponsored
gambling. Don't need to look any farther than the lottery to get overwhelmed with hypocrisy. Never mind all the horse betting, sports betting, Vegas, Atlantic City, and Indian
casinos.
Anyways... everything will be completely legal as soon as the government figures out a way to get their cut, moral objections be damned.
Back to the OP's main point... as has already been stated it is perfectly legal everywhere but Washington State to play
poker online. And try as hard as they might they will never be able to prevent payments moving back and forth. They can stop all the conventional (or at least most of them) banks and such easy enough but I'm not even slightly worried about the possibility of them eliminating all forms of payment.
Will never understand why the government thinks it's their job to protect us from ourselves. Cause that's absolutely impossible to do, there's always a way to throw away your money (or whatever else).
But that did actually occur to me, but thought they would have specified the exclusion. Then I forgot to sign up for it, but we'll see.
