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

It's lose, lose for the taxpayer

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

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

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

Studies in Australia have verified this drain on the economy by video gambling machines

Bankruptcies and addictions increase in areas with casinos