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

Besides creating more compulsive gamblers, money spent on lotteries isn't spent on other goods such as clothing or computers, which would trickle through to retailers, manufacturers and other parts of the economy

It is not economic development; it's about taking money out of the consumer economy and shipping it off to Las Vegas

In permitting gambling enterprises to flourish in the United States and abroad, the United States undermines global socio-economic stability in contravention of its international obligations

You bring in gambling into a major population base, and the more people you have going into a casino, the more people you have hooked on gambling

The gambling industry has a tendency to find public figures ... and these persons are used for their public image. These people generally come in for a couple of years and then they sell out and it's 100 percent owned by out-of-state interests

State-sponsored gambling produces no product, no new wealth, and so it makes no genuine contribution to economic development