Actually, they should just roll it all back get rid of gambling...It destabilizes the U.S. economy

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

We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling

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

Besides creating more compulsive gamblers, money spent on lotteries isn't spent on other goods such as clothing or computers, which would trickle through to retailers, manufacturers and other parts of the economy

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

One to 2 percent of the population becomes addicted gamblers