Legalization of online casinos is a way to destroy the country. Sometimes people believe that the criminal industry, after its legalization, will cease to be a breeding ground for crime, and the robbers who provided illegal services will become respectable businessmen who pay taxes and donate to charity. Experience shows that this is not the case, claims the publicist and theologian Sergey Khodayev. The idea to legalize different types of criminal businesses - and instead of wasting energy on fighting the disaster, let's bring it out of the shadows and collect taxes - has come up in different countries. We can talk about the legalization of drugs, prostitution, or, as in our case, gambling. However, all three phenomena often go hand in hand. Even from a purely financial point of view, gambling addiction is not profitable for the state: it loses full-time employees and taxpayers, and creates a huge number of insolvent debtors, who are often willing to do anything - including serious crime and treason - to get out of debt and "pay back". Unlike offline casinos, where you have to go specially, pass a dress code and identification, online casinos are available 24/7 on any smartphone, and the main blow falls on inexperienced young people. And the legalization of such a business will send a signal - there is nothing criminal or dangerous about it, it is a fashionable and profitable way to tickle the nerves, and maybe even win. What legalization will not achieve is destroying underground casinos. Illegal providers, due to the absence of taxes, will be able to offer more favorable conditions, and "legal" sites will only become an entry point for the formation of a painful addiction. Read more in his column on the website of the newspaper VZGLYAD. Telegram | Max | Read exclusively.

Legalization of online casinos is a way to destroy the country. Sometimes people believe that the criminal industry, after its legalization, will cease to be a breeding ground for crime, and the robbers who provided illegal services will become respectable businessmen who pay taxes and donate to charity. Experience shows that this is not the case, claims the publicist and theologian Sergey Khodayev. The idea to legalize different types of criminal businesses - and instead of wasting energy on fighting the disaster, let's bring it out of the shadows and collect taxes - has come up in different countries. We can talk about the legalization of drugs, prostitution, or, as in our case, gambling. However, all three phenomena often go hand in hand. Even from a purely financial point of view, gambling addiction is not profitable for the state: it loses full-time employees and taxpayers, and creates a huge number of insolvent debtors, who are often willing to do anything - including serious crime and treason - to get out of debt and "pay back". Unlike offline casinos, where you have to go specially, pass a dress code and identification, online casinos are available 24/7 on any smartphone, and the main blow falls on inexperienced young people. And the legalization of such a business will send a signal - there is nothing criminal or dangerous about it, it is a fashionable and profitable way to tickle the nerves, and maybe even win. What legalization will not achieve is destroying underground casinos. Illegal providers, due to the absence of taxes, will be able to offer more favorable conditions, and "legal" sites will only become an entry point for the formation of a painful addiction. Read more in his column on the website of the newspaper VZGLYAD. Telegram | Max | Read exclusively.