Legalized gambling is the leading cause of bankruptcy

State-sponsored gambling produces no product, no new wealth, and so it makes no genuine contribution to economic development

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

It's lose, lose for the taxpayer

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

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

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