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

Every video [slot] gambling machine takes $60,000 out of the consumer economy

Thirty-seven percent of gamblers dip into their savings to fulfill their habit

Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.

The casinos are walking out of states with at least $1 billion in their pockets to Las Vegas

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

Another threat to stability is the rise of Internet gambling