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

The smartest thing legislatures can do is get rid of lotteries and get those dollars buying consumer goods and get the sales tax revenues from that

Gambling drains the economy by taking money away from grocery stores and retail businesses and putting it in the hands of an industry that produces no product

Gambling is a bad deal for taxpayers

When the money is not spent on cars and refrigerators and is instead dropped into a slot machine, it leaves the economy

In permitting gambling enterprises to flourish in the United States and abroad, the United States undermines global socio-economic stability in contravention of its international obligations

Your social costs, your costs to the taxpayers, are $3 for every $1 of benefits, it's not good economic development