Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.

Generally, traditional businesses were slow to recognize the way in which legalized gambling captured dollars from across the entire spectrum of the various consumer markets, but now they know

There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population center

Your addiction rate will go up if you have gambling in this area

Every video [slot] gambling machine takes $60,000 out of the consumer economy

Lotteries boost state revenues in the short run but don't feed the economy in the long run

Crime goes up 10 percent due to the gambling by the third year after racinos or slot machines are open, and then it continues upward after that