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.

An Osage tribal study found that between $41 million to $50 million left a 50-mile radius around their own casino

While gambling addiction can be a social justice reason for some to ban gambling, the economic evidence suggests that the social and economic costs of gambling are $3 to the taxpayers for every $1 in benefits

When the money is not spent on cars and refrigerators and is instead dropped into a slot machine, it leaves the economy

Sociologists almost uniformly report that increased gambling activities, which are promoted as sociologically 'acceptable' and which are made 'accessible' to larger numbers of people will increase the number of pathological gamblers

I would hate to see the state of Wisconsin make another mistake and locate another casino in a high-density population area

We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling