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

The casinos are walking out of states with at least $1 billion in their pockets to Las Vegas

The lightning spread of 'Western-style' gambling overseas has increased the problems of addicted and problem gamblers, organized crime and alleged corruption in Asia and the Middle East

Crime goes up 10 percent due to the gambling by the third year after racinos or slot machines are open, and then it continues upward after that

Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.

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

Every video [slot] gambling machine takes $60,000 out of the consumer economy