And as far as jobs go, for every one job that the casino creates, one is lost in the 35-mile feeder market

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.

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

The faster the gambling activity, the more highly addictive it is; and the more addictive the gambling activity is, the more revenue it will generate for the industry

A 1999 report by a bipartisan federal panel on gambling concluded the United States should put a hold on further casinos until it is clear what the impact is on America

Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.

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