Gambling has a zero-sum economic effect in its market and, like legalizing cocaine, the socio-economic costs of legalizing gambling overwhelm the benefits

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

The casinos are walking out of states with at least $1 billion in their pockets to Las Vegas

The real loss by gambling is $180,000 to the consumer economy for each slot machine

It's time to wipe the slate clean, recriminalize gambling, just like we did in this country 100 years ago

Any legislator who says he doesn't see the downside hasn't done his homework

My bottom line is this is no time to be gambling with our economy