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

Gambling is a bad deal for taxpayers

27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers

And as far as jobs go, for every one job that the casino creates, one is lost in the 35-mile feeder market

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.

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

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