True...but gambling has always been regulated in the US....if its been allowed at all. Usually its in the hands of the states as a resource to prop up the state revenue. Since gambling can now be done internationally, the tax revenue man needs a piece of the action....you live in a socialist state, you should have thought of that one.
It is not about tax. It is a sop to the mid-term elections because it is a vote-winner for many on the Christian-right.
It will not last much beyond that.
We have a left wing government but we are not a Socialist State you make Britain sound like the old Eastern Block.
We have a free market economy in fact as far as gambling is concerned for the ordinary person much freer with betting shops in most towns.