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

It's lose, lose for the taxpayer

Another threat to stability is the rise of Internet gambling

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

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.

Gambling drains the economy by taking money away from grocery stores and retail businesses and putting it in the hands of an industry that produces no product

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