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

You bring in gambling into a major population base, and the more people you have going into a casino, the more people you have hooked on gambling

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

Gambling drains the economy by taking money away from grocery stores and retail businesses and putting it in the hands of an industry that produces no product

A shrinking economy means lost sales and lost jobs

The faster the gambling activity, the more highly addictive it is; and the more addictive the gambling activity is, the more revenue it will generate for the industry

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