$60,000 spent in a consumer economy multiplies by respending into $180,000

One to 2 percent of the population becomes addicted gamblers

There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population center

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

When the money is not spent on cars and refrigerators and is instead dropped into a slot machine, it leaves the economy

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

A study in Illinois in the mid-1990s found that 65 percent of businesses were hurt by the proximity of gambling