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

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

Bankruptcies will be up 18 to 42 percent around racinos areas tracks as people lose their money

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

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

Legalized gambling is the leading cause of bankruptcy

Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts