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

Bankruptcies increase 18 percent to 42 percent above the national average

In 1993, 40 percent of Minnesota restaurateurs reported declines attributed to casinos

Although crime and corruption decreases within a one-mile radius of a casino, it increases 10 percent within a 35-mile radius by the third year the casino is open.

Thirty-seven percent of gamblers dip into their savings to fulfill their habit

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

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