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

For every dollar of revenue generated by gambling, taxpayers must pay at least $3 in increased criminal justice costs, social welfare expenses, high regulatory costs, and increased infrastructure expenditures

Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.

When governments legalize and encourage gambling, they are creating addictions among their citizens

Your social costs, your costs to the taxpayers, are $3 for every $1 of benefits, it's not good economic development

Crime goes up 10 percent due to the gambling by the third year after racinos or slot machines are open, and then it continues upward after that

Any legislator who says he doesn't see the downside hasn't done his homework