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

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.

It's lose, lose for the taxpayer

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

This is an industry that generates addicted gamblers and they are desperate to get money

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

A shrinking economy means lost sales and lost jobs