This is an industry that generates addicted gamblers and they are desperate to get money

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

In 1993, 40 percent of Minnesota restaurateurs reported declines attributed to casinos

If gambling were banned, those social costs would drop, tax revenues from consumer goods would increase, and money would be pumped into the productive economic sector

The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime

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

For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy