The gambling industry has a tendency to find public figures ... and these persons are used for their public image. These people generally come in for a couple of years and then they sell out and it's 100 percent owned by out-of-state interests

State-sponsored gambling produces no product, no new wealth, and so it makes no genuine contribution to economic development

And as far as jobs go, for every one job that the casino creates, one is lost in the 35-mile feeder market

Crime goes up 10 percent due to the gambling by the third year after racinos or slot machines are open, and then it continues upward after that

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

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

Gambling is a bad deal for taxpayers