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

$60,000 spent in a consumer economy multiplies by respending into $180,000

While advocates of legalized gambling say it brings in revenues needed for education and other uses, it actually has led to higher taxes, loss of jobs, economic disruption of non-gambling businesses, increased crime and higher social-welfare costs

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

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.

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

The casinos are walking out of states with at least $1 billion in their pockets to Las Vegas