A study in Illinois in the mid-1990s found that 65 percent of businesses were hurt by the proximity of gambling

Generally, traditional businesses were slow to recognize the way in which legalized gambling captured dollars from across the entire spectrum of the various consumer markets, but now they know

State-sponsored gambling produces no product, no new wealth, and so it makes no genuine contribution to economic development

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

Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government

The faster the gambling activity, the more highly addictive it is; and the more addictive the gambling activity is, the more revenue it will generate for the industry

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