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

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

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

While advocates of legalized gambling say it brings in revenues needed for education and other uses, it actually has led to higher taxes, loss of jobs, economic disruption of non-gambling businesses, increased crime and higher social-welfare costs

For every three machines, you lose two jobs out of the surrounding economy because people are dumping their money on gambling

Movies and Disney World don't create addicts

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