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

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

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

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

$60,000 spent in a consumer economy multiplies by respending into $180,000

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

Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.