If gambling were banned, those social costs would drop, tax revenues from consumer goods would increase, and money would be pumped into the productive economic sector

Your social costs, your costs to the taxpayers, are $3 for every $1 of benefits, it's not good economic development

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

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

Movies and Disney World don't create addicts

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

An Osage tribal study found that between $41 million to $50 million left a 50-mile radius around their own casino