Casinos don't bring business except for the gambling boys

Utah sells itself to Fortune 500 companies as a noncasino state where employers don't have to be concerned about absenteeism and other problems associated with gambling

The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away

While gambling addiction can be a social justice reason for some to ban gambling, the economic evidence suggests that the social and economic costs of gambling are $3 to the taxpayers for every $1 in benefits

In 1993, 40 percent of Minnesota restaurateurs reported declines attributed to casinos

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

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