What we really need is a federal intervention plan, which calls for a moratorium on gambling in the U.S.

It's lose, lose for the taxpayer

The smartest thing legislatures can do is get rid of lotteries and get those dollars buying consumer goods and get the sales tax revenues from that

Every video [slot] gambling machine takes $60,000 out of the consumer economy

Gambling is a catalyst for economic downturn

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

It's time to wipe the slate clean, recriminalize gambling, just like we did in this country 100 years ago