Internet gambling has become a huge problem that is plaguing many individuals across the nation. It is threatening to our economy and disrupts society. Internet gambling needs to have laws limiting it, or be abolished completely. As supposed to gambling in a Casino, internet gambling is more addictive and very unsafe. This internet gambling can cause people to blow through all of their money due to the fact that the money lost or won is transferred electronically. There is no mental part of handing over money to someone when you lose, therefore you would be addicted to internet gambling. Also, there are many hackers who could possibly run fake online gambling sites.
The biggest threat of internet gambling is to our economy. Legal gambling operations have to pay a huge tax to the government which is used to build schools, provide free scholarships, and help our government run. Online gambling doesn’t have to pay these gambling taxes to the government. In turn, online gambling not paying taxes harshly impacts our economy. Internet gambling also threatens people’s credit card/bank account security. When you put your credit card into an untrustworthy site, your information and money could easily be stolen. All of these put together could severely affect our economy. Online gambling needs to be changed or abolished.