The military should get rid of video gambling devices on nearly 100 overseas bases and posts

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

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

If you want your 401k to come back, recriminalize gambling

The lightning spread of 'Western-style' gambling overseas has increased the problems of addicted and problem gamblers, organized crime and alleged corruption in Asia and the Middle East

If gambling were banned, those social costs would drop, tax revenues from consumer goods would increase, and money would be pumped into the productive economic sector

Generally, traditional businesses were slow to recognize the way in which legalized gambling captured dollars from across the entire spectrum of the various consumer markets, but now they know