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

Gambling interests hire lots of economists to do impact studies, but what you need is cost-benefit analysis, and you'll never see the industry finance those

Generally, traditional businesses were slow to recognize the way in which legalized gambling captured dollars from across the entire spectrum of the various consumer markets, but now they know

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

Bankruptcies and addictions increase in areas with casinos

It is not economic development; it's about taking money out of the consumer economy and shipping it off to Las Vegas

Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.