A shrinking economy means lost sales and lost jobs

One to 2 percent of the population becomes addicted gamblers

We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling

Your social costs, your costs to the taxpayers, are $3 for every $1 of benefits, it's not good economic development

Gamblers spend 10 percent less on food; 25 percent less on clothing and 35 percent less on savings

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

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