Do you believe that the Deposit threshold can minimize gambling addiction in the poor sector?!
That’s what our lawmakers believe. Right now, you can deposit as low as 1 dollar in our local casino through our local e-wallet, and because of this, many poor people become addicted to games like Bingo, scatter, and other luck-based games.
So, they are enacting a law that increases the deposit threshold from $1 to $175, making it harder for these individuals to fund their accounts and play.
This is funny because this is like when they increased the tax on soda to almost 10% because they wanted to reduce the incidents of diabetes that comes with increased consumption of soda. It did not work. People simply adjusted to the new hike in price of soda.
In the same vein a law that increases deposit threshold for gambling is likely not going to work. Gamblers will always find a way and just to it. Rather what they should do in addition to this is to increase the education and our awareness around gambling addiction. That would help to.