The social costs, and the increased tax costs due to addicted gamblers, stay behind

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

Then they're like addicts; they can't help themselves... They will steal, cheat, embezzle and commit other crimes just to get money to gamble

My bottom line is this is no time to be gambling with our economy

What we really need is a federal intervention plan, which calls for a moratorium on gambling in the U.S.

For every three machines, you lose two jobs out of the surrounding economy because people are dumping their money on gambling

It's lose, lose for the taxpayer