Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.

The gambling industry has a tendency to find public figures ... and these persons are used for their public image. These people generally come in for a couple of years and then they sell out and it's 100 percent owned by out-of-state interests

Studies in Australia have verified this drain on the economy by video gambling machines

27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers

If you want your 401k to come back, recriminalize gambling

Besides creating more compulsive gamblers, money spent on lotteries isn't spent on other goods such as clothing or computers, which would trickle through to retailers, manufacturers and other parts of the economy

It becomes a cannibalization of your pre-existing economy