Although crime and corruption decreases within a one-mile radius of a casino, it increases 10 percent within a 35-mile radius by the third year the casino is open.

This is an industry that generates addicted gamblers and they are desperate to get money

And as far as jobs go, for every one job that the casino creates, one is lost in the 35-mile feeder market

In convenience gambling scenarios, discretionary spending and nondiscretionary addicted gambling dollars were transferred from other forms of consumer expenditures

If gambling were banned, those social costs would drop, tax revenues from consumer goods would increase, and money would be pumped into the productive economic sector

The socio-economic impact of gambling addiction is comparable to drug and alcohol addiction

Therefore 5,000 new video gambling machines costs the economy 5,000 lost jobs each year