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

Generally, traditional businesses were slow to recognize the way in which legalized gambling captured dollars from across the entire spectrum of the various consumer markets, but now they know

You bring in gambling into a major population base, and the more people you have going into a casino, the more people you have hooked on gambling

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

27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers

Movies and Disney World don't create addicts

It's lose, lose for the taxpayer