We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling

The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime

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

When the money is not spent on cars and refrigerators and is instead dropped into a slot machine, it leaves the economy

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

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

The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away