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

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

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

Gambling is being subsidized by the taxpayers

There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population center

While advocates of legalized gambling say it brings in revenues needed for education and other uses, it actually has led to higher taxes, loss of jobs, economic disruption of non-gambling businesses, increased crime and higher social-welfare costs

In 1993, 40 percent of Minnesota restaurateurs reported declines attributed to casinos