Saying there was no point in continuing to debate a raft of tax increases for Wyoming’s online sports betting and other gaming platforms, a visibly exasperated state Sen. Tara Nethercott called out Wyoming House members as being obstructionist, then abruptly ended a select committee meeting Tuesday.

The Select Committee on Capital Financing and Investments had dedicated its afternoon to considering four gaming and gambling-related bills, but after failing to advance a draft bill to create a monitoring system for gaming, chairwoman Nethercott, R-Cheyenne, said the writing was on the wall.

There’s no way members of the state House, which is controlled by the Freedom Caucus, would ever allow any more regulation or taxation of online gambling and other gaming, she said.

“Should we just quit

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