Legalized gambling is the leading cause of bankruptcy

Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.

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

A shrinking economy means lost sales and lost jobs

People will spend a tremendous amount of money in casinos, money they normally would spend on refrigerators or a new car. Local businesses will suffer because they'll lose consumer dollars to casinos.

Although crime and corruption decreases within a one-mile radius of a casino, it increases 10 percent within a 35-mile radius by the third year the casino is open.

Gambling is being subsidized by the taxpayers