Besides creating more compulsive gamblers, money spent on lotteries isn't spent on other goods such as clothing or computers, which would trickle through to retailers, manufacturers and other parts of the economy

Movies and Disney World don't create addicts

A 1999 report by a bipartisan federal panel on gambling concluded the United States should put a hold on further casinos until it is clear what the impact is on America

Lotteries boost state revenues in the short run but don't feed the economy in the long run

Any legislator who says he doesn't see the downside hasn't done his homework

It is not economic development; it's about taking money out of the consumer economy and shipping it off to Las Vegas

Your social costs, your costs to the taxpayers, are $3 for every $1 of benefits, it's not good economic development