Your addiction rate will go up if you have gambling in this area

State-sponsored gambling produces no product, no new wealth, and so it makes no genuine contribution to economic development

The common mistake that business people make is they're going to get drive-by business...Only gas stations are helped

For every dollar of revenue generated by gambling, taxpayers must pay at least $3 in increased criminal justice costs, social welfare expenses, high regulatory costs, and increased infrastructure expenditures

Gambling addicts usually lose their focus at work and problem military gambling poses a national security threat

Gambling drains the economy by taking money away from grocery stores and retail businesses and putting it in the hands of an industry that produces no product

Gambling interests hire lots of economists to do impact studies, but what you need is cost-benefit analysis, and you'll never see the industry finance those