Regulating online poker and sites by "taxing" the rake?

[ericicecream]

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An extra 2.5% (the sites already rake 5%) would be devastating to anyone's winrate, especially if there was no cap. I would much prefer that uncle sam take 25% of all my cashouts instead of 2.5% of every pot that I win.

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If i am understanding correctly, the sites make only 1/2 their normal profit whenever a u.s. citizen wins a pot. Correct?

If I'm a site, I'm thinking that if I agree to this then soon other countries will be demanding the same. I mean, why wouldn't they? Why should only the u.s. get to tax global online gambling?

I commend you for coming up with a unique idea, it's out of the box thinking that eventually comes up with innovative products. But this doesn't seem to work.