Movies and Disney World don't create addicts

Studies in Australia have verified this drain on the economy by video gambling machines

People will spend a tremendous amount of money in casinos, money they normally would spend on refrigerators or a new car. Local businesses will suffer because they'll lose consumer dollars to casinos.

Every video [slot] gambling machine takes $60,000 out of the consumer economy

This is an industry that generates addicted gamblers and they are desperate to get money

You bring in gambling into a major population base, and the more people you have going into a casino, the more people you have hooked on gambling

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