The casinos are walking out of states with at least $1 billion in their pockets to Las Vegas

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

Gambling interests hire lots of economists to do impact studies, but what you need is cost-benefit analysis, and you'll never see the industry finance those

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

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

Actually, they should just roll it all back get rid of gambling...It destabilizes the U.S. economy

Besides creating more compulsive gamblers, money spent on lotteries isn't spent on other goods such as clothing or computers, which would trickle through to retailers, manufacturers and other parts of the economy