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 ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime

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

When governments legalize and encourage gambling, they are creating addictions among their citizens

The smartest thing legislatures can do is get rid of lotteries and get those dollars buying consumer goods and get the sales tax revenues from that

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

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