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.

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

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

Gambling addicts usually lose their focus at work and problem military gambling poses a national security threat

There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population center

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

Generally, traditional businesses were slow to recognize the way in which legalized gambling captured dollars from across the entire spectrum of the various consumer markets, but now they know