For every dollar of revenue generated by gambling, taxpayers must pay at least $3 in increased criminal justice costs, social welfare expenses, high regulatory costs, and increased infrastructure expenditures

The smartest thing legislatures can do is get rid of lotteries and get those dollars buying consumer goods and get the sales tax revenues from that

People will spend a tremendous amount of money in casinos, money they normally would spend on refrigerators or a new car. Local businesses will suffer because they'll lose consumer dollars to casinos.

Every video [slot] gambling machine takes $60,000 out of the consumer economy

Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.

What we really need is a federal intervention plan, which calls for a moratorium on gambling in the U.S.

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