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

While gambling addiction can be a social justice reason for some to ban gambling, the economic evidence suggests that the social and economic costs of gambling are $3 to the taxpayers for every $1 in benefits

If gambling were banned, those social costs would drop, tax revenues from consumer goods would increase, and money would be pumped into the productive economic sector

The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime

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

Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts

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