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.

It's lose, lose for the taxpayer

Then they're like addicts; they can't help themselves... They will steal, cheat, embezzle and commit other crimes just to get money to gamble

What we really need is a federal intervention plan, which calls for a moratorium on gambling in the U.S.

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

When governments legalize and encourage gambling, they are creating addictions among their citizens

The casinos are walking out of states with at least $1 billion in their pockets to Las Vegas