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

It is not economic development; it's about taking money out of the consumer economy and shipping it off to Las Vegas

There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population center

Gambling is being subsidized by the taxpayers

In permitting gambling enterprises to flourish in the United States and abroad, the United States undermines global socio-economic stability in contravention of its international obligations

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

Sociologists almost uniformly report that increased gambling activities, which are promoted as sociologically 'acceptable' and which are made 'accessible' to larger numbers of people will increase the number of pathological gamblers