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

An Osage tribal study found that between $41 million to $50 million left a 50-mile radius around their own casino

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

While advocates of legalized gambling say it brings in revenues needed for education and other uses, it actually has led to higher taxes, loss of jobs, economic disruption of non-gambling businesses, increased crime and higher social-welfare costs

Utah sells itself to Fortune 500 companies as a noncasino state where employers don't have to be concerned about absenteeism and other problems associated with gambling

For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy

Gambling is a bad deal for taxpayers