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

While advocates of legalized gambling say it brings in revenues needed for education and other uses, it actually has led to higher taxes, loss of jobs, economic disruption of non-gambling businesses, increased crime and higher social-welfare costs

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

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

Gambling is being subsidized by the taxpayers

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

A 1999 report by a bipartisan federal panel on gambling concluded the United States should put a hold on further casinos until it is clear what the impact is on America