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

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

Actually, they should just roll it all back get rid of gambling...It destabilizes the U.S. economy

Bankruptcies will be up 18 to 42 percent around racinos areas tracks as people lose their money

Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts

$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