A shrinking economy means lost sales and lost jobs

Therefore 5,000 new video gambling machines costs the economy 5,000 lost jobs each year

When the money is not spent on cars and refrigerators and is instead dropped into a slot machine, it leaves the economy

While gambling addiction can be a social justice reason for some to ban gambling, the economic evidence suggests that the social and economic costs of gambling are $3 to the taxpayers for every $1 in benefits

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

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

The socio-economic impact of gambling addiction is comparable to drug and alcohol addiction