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

Gambling is a catalyst for economic downturn

Gambling is being subsidized by the taxpayers

A study in Illinois in the mid-1990s found that 65 percent of businesses were hurt by the proximity of gambling

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

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

The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away