In the five years since the Supreme Court ruling, overall state tax revenues tied to sports gambling have grown from $38 million in 2018 to $126 million in 2019 to over $1 billion in 2022, according to .Īlthough part of the increase is due to more states' having legalized sports gambling, some of it from the climbing tax revenues in states that have legalized the practice. The size and speed of the tax revenue growth are impressive. All those wagers yield a lot of tax revenue for states that legalize sports gambling. What can bring together a nation that is so often divided along red and blue lines? Green. Overall, it’s a pretty even partisan split. Another set of other states from both sides of the political spectrum is considering legalizing it, as well. Twenty of the 36 states that have legalized sports gambling voted for President Joe Biden in 2020 the other 16 voted for former President Donald Trump.
Look again at that map of legalized gambling with the blue and red shading of the 2020 presidential election. And, unlike other aspects of American life, this trend seems to cut across the partisan divide.
