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

The military should get rid of video gambling devices on nearly 100 overseas bases and posts

Bankruptcies will be up 18 to 42 percent around racinos areas tracks as people lose their money

Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government

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

Sociologists almost uniformly report that increased gambling activities, which are promoted as sociologically 'acceptable' and which are made 'accessible' to larger numbers of people will increase the number of pathological gamblers

The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime