WTO world trade organization ruling about online gambling in the states

The WTO (world trade organization) ruling against the US that was won by the countries of Antigua and Barbuda which were awarded twenty one million in damages and an expected proposal from the states to satisfy both parties issues concerning online gambling is hopefully going to come to an end after five years as the US has announced they will reveal their proposal to the two countries to solve this trade dispute.

This proposal is expected by the end of the month according to sources within the Barbuda government. It will likely be an offer of a trade out such as was struck with Costa Rica, the European Union and one that is likely to fall on India and a few other countries involved in the suit. The US offers more access to trade opportunities in the area of research and development, storage and warehouse and other areas of interest to foreign entities.

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This writer would be very surprised to see the US make any serious effort towards allowing online gambling any further than already exists. I very much expect if Antigua and Barbuda don't accept the proposal and insist on pushing the gambling card that some lame offering of an excuse as to why the US is above the agreement or that they don't have to honor the agreement because this involves gambling, will be the end result. It is most likely since the other afore mentioned countries have accepted the proposal that this will be the best offer made to the remaining countries, and that allowing online gambling will never be a consideration. This even though the US allows internet gambling when it involves something that suites their interest such as horses or lotteries.

More hypocritical is that the senator Goodlatte of Virginia, a leader in passing laws against allowing online gambling and telling citizens just one more thing they can or cannot do ... accepted $10,000 from ... yep you guessed it. One of the few entities which can legally have online gambling,  the horses. So while one hand of our self-appointed conscience of the country is busy passing laws to take away more freedoms of the US public, his other hand is out-stretched for donations from the people that benefit from his passing these laws. How proud Mr Goodlatte must be to know he is capable of making these decisions for the rest of us, accept money from those with a conflict of interest, and still be the fair, honest and for "all the people" ... that he must see himself.

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Sadly it is Senator Goodlatte, Senator Kyle and friends that have put the states in a position to have to make these trade concessions with 3rd-world countries when they could have in fact chose to regulate this booming industry and help solve the huge debt their country has accumulated over the past half decade.

 

 

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