{
  "id": 18534416,
  "title": "States tax sports betting heavily, but gamblers may barely feel it",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/06/states-tax-sports-betting-heavily-but-gamblers-may-barely-feel-it",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-11-06T17:20:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-11-states-tax-sports-heavily-gamblers.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Sports betting has grown explosively since 2018, when a U.S. Supreme Court ruling struck down a federal ban on it. Now, Americans wager more than $165 billion on sports annually, contributing to an industry larger than state-run lotteries even excluding prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}