When governments legalize and encourage gambling, they are creating addictions among their citizens

For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy

Gambling is being subsidized by the taxpayers

Gambling is a catalyst for economic downturn

In permitting gambling enterprises to flourish in the United States and abroad, the United States undermines global socio-economic stability in contravention of its international obligations

Sociologists almost uniformly report that increased gambling activities, which are promoted as sociologically 'acceptable' and which are made 'accessible' to larger numbers of people will increase the number of pathological gamblers

Gambling addicts usually lose their focus at work and problem military gambling poses a national security threat