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

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

Studies in Australia have verified this drain on the economy by video gambling machines

Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.

It's lose, lose for the taxpayer

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

Therefore 5,000 new video gambling machines costs the economy 5,000 lost jobs each year