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.

My bottom line is this is no time to be gambling with our economy

Therefore 5,000 new video gambling machines costs the economy 5,000 lost jobs each year

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

A shrinking economy means lost sales and lost jobs

The social costs, and the increased tax costs due to addicted gamblers, stay behind

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