Online gaming impacts lower-income residents disproportionately. REDPIXEL - stock.adobe.com

Uh-oh: The New York Times last week dropped a Page One story marveling at the huge revenue windfalls Pennsylvania and New Jersey have reaped from legalizing the “casino on your phone” — surely pushing a truly terrible idea to the top of Albany’s agenda.

In the seven states that allow full-on online gambling — slots and all — the government’s take dwarfs its income from taxing online sports “gaming.”

Pennsylvania rakes in $100 million a month; Jersey, $50 million.

How can Albany resist betting that it’ll do far better from “i-Gaming”?

And never mind that legal gambling is a highly regressive revenue-raiser, taking a far, far bigger chunk of low-income folks’ paychecks than it does from

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