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

Movies and Disney World don't create addicts

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

While gambling addiction can be a social justice reason for some to ban gambling, the economic evidence suggests that the social and economic costs of gambling are $3 to the taxpayers for every $1 in benefits

For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy

One to 2 percent of the population becomes addicted gamblers

Every video [slot] gambling machine takes $60,000 out of the consumer economy