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

Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.

In convenience gambling scenarios, discretionary spending and nondiscretionary addicted gambling dollars were transferred from other forms of consumer expenditures

Studies in Australia have verified this drain on the economy by video gambling machines

If the government wants to stimulate the economy, it should outlaw gambling

If gambling were banned, those social costs would drop, tax revenues from consumer goods would increase, and money would be pumped into the productive economic sector

One to 2 percent of the population becomes addicted gamblers