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

Bankruptcies and addictions increase in areas with casinos

Gamblers spend 10 percent less on food; 25 percent less on clothing and 35 percent less on savings

We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling

Studies in Australia have verified this drain on the economy by video gambling machines

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

Any legislator who says he doesn't see the downside hasn't done his homework