Gambling drains the economy by taking money away from grocery stores and retail businesses and putting it in the hands of an industry that produces no product

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

For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy

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

The faster the gambling activity, the more highly addictive it is; and the more addictive the gambling activity is, the more revenue it will generate for the industry

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

The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime