It's lose, lose for the taxpayer

Casinos don't bring business except for the gambling boys

One to 2 percent of the population becomes addicted gamblers

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

The gambling industry has a tendency to find public figures ... and these persons are used for their public image. These people generally come in for a couple of years and then they sell out and it's 100 percent owned by out-of-state interests

The faster the gambling activity, the more highly addictive it is; and the more addictive the gambling activity is, the more revenue it will generate for the industry

Gambling drains the economy by taking money away from grocery stores and retail businesses and putting it in the hands of an industry that produces no product