The 'Holy Grail' of gambling could break American sports betting wide open

[Mike Nasty]

Weed first, gambling second, p*ssy going to be third...the holy trinity.

It seems like the laws are going in the other direction

 

[New Jeruzalem Journalist]

look man i'm just saying that there is no way a sin tax is going to be used to "fund a lot more black/brown social initiatives". are lotto proceeds used that way now? what ends up happening is that it becomes a regressive tax on the poor because they hand over their money and the state govts use that new windfall to either close a deficit or cut taxes because they have a new source of revenue.

Unfortunately, all of this.

As a reformed gambler and debtor, I got a crash course in just how beneficial to progressive initiatives this industry is. Regressive and voluntary taxation is exactly it.

Atlantic City, were I used to spend alot of my time as a dumb ass in my early-mid 20s, has something like an almost 50% living below the poverty line population. And less than 30% of the total population is white.