Generally, traditional businesses were slow to recognize the way in which legalized gambling captured dollars from across the entire spectrum of the various consumer markets, but now they know

Gambling is a bad deal for taxpayers

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

Utah sells itself to Fortune 500 companies as a noncasino state where employers don't have to be concerned about absenteeism and other problems associated with gambling

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

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

You bring in gambling into a major population base, and the more people you have going into a casino, the more people you have hooked on gambling