[throwawa1]

This is great news. From my perspective from someone who grew up in the 90s, America feels like we took the turn towards Biff Tannen's Pleasure Paradise. A future very fa from our promise filled with gambling, social degradation, and worse economic prospects for everyone. Gambling sites like Polymarket are just a symptom. More states need to move in this direction, because its just a tax levied on the uninformed to insider cashing in

[baggachipz]

And Biff is the president D:

[matttproud]

Good on Minnesota.

[UberFly]

Not even. Minnesota is fine with betting as long as it is tribal betting and lawmakers are getting their share of the cut. Look it up.

[matttproud]

I lived there, and I am familiar with that. I would be happy if they did away with all of it, including the state-administered lottery. But this is a great start of low-hanging fruit.

[deflator]

Once a vice is taxed, it becomes a budget line item for the local government and is much harder to get rid of

[bequanna]

Exactly.

This is not a law to protect people, this is a law to protect entrenched special interests (Reservation and State-owned casinos).