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

What we really need is a federal intervention plan, which calls for a moratorium on gambling in the U.S.

The socio-economic impact of gambling addiction is comparable to drug and alcohol addiction

It's lose, lose for the taxpayer

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

Casinos don't bring business except for the gambling boys

State-sponsored gambling produces no product, no new wealth, and so it makes no genuine contribution to economic development