Any legislator who says he doesn't see the downside hasn't done his homework

Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government

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

It's time to wipe the slate clean, recriminalize gambling, just like we did in this country 100 years ago

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

State-sponsored gambling produces no product, no new wealth, and so it makes no genuine contribution to economic development