Online Casinos Singled Out to Police Deadbeat Dads

An amendment to the Frank bill regulating online casinos requires gaming sites to figure out the kid support payment status of customers.

During the markup this week of Barney Frank's bill proposing the united states regulate online casinos, Representative Michele Bachmann offered an amendment suggesting that Internet gambling sites be required as a part of their licensing to refuse access to folks behind on child support. Bachmann, a Republican from Minnesota, said online casinos have to be made to figure out which customers are deadbeat dads and refuse deposits from them, or face fines and suspensions.

Some gaming analysts found the proposal to be ironically very similar to the problematic UIGEA, which the Frank bill would render moot. In both cases, enforcement is needed of the non-public sector, with penalties for loss of success, despite great difficulties acquiring the required information to correctly decide when the law is applicable.

At best, online casinos have to be only required to reject patronage of deadbeat dads from a listing provided by the regulatory authority. To invite Internet gaming sites to research the kid support status of all customers on a continual basis is creating an unreasonable burden at the industry, says OCA gaming analyst Sherman Bradley.

Bachmann said the associated fee to taxpayers of carrying the load left unsatisfied by irresponsible parents made keeping those deadbeats from gambling money at online casinos a public necessity. However, she did not explain how online gambling differed from hotels, music concerts, movie theatres, or almost any type of spending imaginable.

"Internet casinos are still being singled out whilst they're welcomed into mainstream life within the US," says Bradley. "Sure, deadbeat dads must be paying their bills instead of spending money entertaining themselves, but why are online casinos the one group forced to police their patrons?

"Congress wouldn't recall to mind committing the absurdity of asking every bar or moviehouse to figure out which patrons owe child support, or face punishment," Bradley continued. "It seems, even while the net gaming industry faces charges that they don't posess the aptitude to correctly run age checks, Congress trusts the web technology to reach far greater screening than is plausible in land situations."

Published on July 31, 2010 by PrestonLewis

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