Increasing gambling taxation will make most of these gambling companies to do everything possible for them to make money from their customers. This alone will make many of these gambling companies to strategize ways of involving in dubious way to steal from gamblers just to meet up with the tax and also something left to pay workers and profit.
That’s the wrong way to go about opposing a tax increase. The government already knows that gambling operators are profitable, that’s why they raised the taxes in the first place. But if casinos start cheating gamblers, that’s basically suicide, especially if they get caught, since it means jail time and their business could be shut down. I don’t know why that idea even came to mind. Do you really think casinos can’t survive with higher taxes?