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

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

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

Gambling drains the economy by taking money away from grocery stores and retail businesses and putting it in the hands of an industry that produces no product

The faster the gambling activity, the more highly addictive it is; and the more addictive the gambling activity is, the more revenue it will generate for the industry

Crime goes up 10 percent due to the gambling by the third year after racinos or slot machines are open, and then it continues upward after that

Gambling interests hire lots of economists to do impact studies, but what you need is cost-benefit analysis, and you'll never see the industry finance those