While advocates of legalized gambling say it brings in revenues needed for education and other uses, it actually has led to higher taxes, loss of jobs, economic disruption of non-gambling businesses, increased crime and higher social-welfare costs

Clothing sales plummet, rent delinquencies mount and even grocery sales shrink as gamblers, having tapped out their entertainment budgets, dip into dollars set aside for necessities

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

There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population center

The common mistake that business people make is they're going to get drive-by business...Only gas stations are helped

Crime goes up 10 percent due to the gambling by the third year after racinos or slot machines are open, and then it continues upward after that

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