Gambling interests hire lots of economists to do impact studies, but what you need is cost-benefit analysis, and you'll never see the industry finance those

$60,000 spent in a consumer economy multiplies by respending into $180,000

We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling

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

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

Sociologists almost uniformly report that increased gambling activities, which are promoted as sociologically 'acceptable' and which are made 'accessible' to larger numbers of people will increase the number of pathological gamblers

Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.