When the money is not spent on cars and refrigerators and is instead dropped into a slot machine, it leaves the economy

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

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.

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

It's lose, lose for the taxpayer

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

The military should get rid of video gambling devices on nearly 100 overseas bases and posts