You bring in gambling into a major population base, and the more people you have going into a casino, the more people you have hooked on gambling

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

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

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

Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.

Bankruptcies will be up 18 to 42 percent around racinos areas tracks as people lose their money

Bankruptcies and addictions increase in areas with casinos