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

Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.

Then they're like addicts; they can't help themselves... They will steal, cheat, embezzle and commit other crimes just to get money to gamble

Bankruptcies increase 18 percent to 42 percent above the national average

Gambling is a bad deal for taxpayers

For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy

27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers