It's lose, lose for the taxpayer

Another threat to stability is the rise of Internet gambling

In convenience gambling scenarios, discretionary spending and nondiscretionary addicted gambling dollars were transferred from other forms of consumer expenditures

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

The common mistake that business people make is they're going to get drive-by business...Only gas stations are helped

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

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