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

The common mistake that business people make is they're going to get drive-by business...Only gas stations are helped

Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.

It becomes a cannibalization of your pre-existing economy

Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts

People will spend a tremendous amount of money in casinos, money they normally would spend on refrigerators or a new car. Local businesses will suffer because they'll lose consumer dollars to casinos.

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