Clothing sales plummet, rent delinquencies mount and even grocery sales shrink as gamblers, having tapped out their entertainment budgets, dip into dollars set aside for necessities

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

Gamblers spend 10 percent less on food; 25 percent less on clothing and 35 percent less on savings

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

Then they're like addicts; they can't help themselves... They will steal, cheat, embezzle and commit other crimes just to get money to gamble

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

The common mistake that business people make is they're going to get drive-by business...Only gas stations are helped