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

Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.

Crime goes up 10 percent due to the gambling by the third year after racinos or slot machines are open, and then it continues upward after that

Besides creating more compulsive gamblers, money spent on lotteries isn't spent on other goods such as clothing or computers, which would trickle through to retailers, manufacturers and other parts of the economy

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

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

The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away