My bottom line is this is no time to be gambling with our economy

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

It's lose, lose for the taxpayer

There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population center

People will spend a tremendous amount of money in casinos, money they normally would spend on refrigerators or a new car. Local businesses will suffer because they'll lose consumer dollars to casinos.

Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts

Sociologists almost uniformly report that increased gambling activities, which are promoted as sociologically 'acceptable' and which are made 'accessible' to larger numbers of people will increase the number of pathological gamblers