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

$60,000 spent in a consumer economy multiplies by respending into $180,000

The real loss by gambling is $180,000 to the consumer economy for each slot machine

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.

You bring in gambling into a major population base, and the more people you have going into a casino, the more people you have hooked on gambling

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

Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts