No reputable economist anywhere believes it's gambling an economic tool

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

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

Gambling interests hire lots of economists to do impact studies, but what you need is cost-benefit analysis, and you'll never see the industry finance those

Then they're like addicts; they can't help themselves... They will steal, cheat, embezzle and commit other crimes just to get money to gamble

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

Your social costs, your costs to the taxpayers, are $3 for every $1 of benefits, it's not good economic development