Agency of public opinion, II (long)
Stops nothing. You are drawing conclusions based on your experience, but in fact there are many locales where indian casinos operate as they chose. Public opinion carries NO WEIGHT and stops nothing in the indian casinos of my home state. Indian nations are independent soverign nations. Some indian nations have gaming compacts agreed upon with the state as to what games, rules, betting limits they will offer.
However there are also indian nations in the SAME state that have refused to enter into a compact, yet have operated for years. Most obvious example is slot machines/video poker. Absolutely illegal by state law. Yet indian casinos without state compacts have offered these in their casinos for years. They advertise slots openly on local TV stations. Nothing is done. Federal agencies have taken them to court but nothing changes. They thumb their noses at the state, the law, and "public opiion".
"A dealer will not get in trouble in all but seediest of places for
busting too much". Wrong. They have been fired for it. And I've talked to them personally. Also, in my state at the 2nd largest non indian casion (by revenue) it was common practice to switch out dealers in the middle of shoes if the bj table was dumping. Not a seedy casino, just stupid, superstitious management. They would also go to the extreme of closing the table, forcing players to move to another table or leave.