An Osage tribal study found that between $41 million to $50 million left a 50-mile radius around their own casino

A shrinking economy means lost sales and lost jobs

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

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

In convenience gambling scenarios, discretionary spending and nondiscretionary addicted gambling dollars were transferred from other forms of consumer expenditures

Your addiction rate will go up if you have gambling in this area

Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.