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

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

My bottom line is this is no time to be gambling with our economy

The real loss by gambling is $180,000 to the consumer economy for each slot machine

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

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

We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling