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

Actually, they should just roll it all back get rid of gambling...It destabilizes the U.S. economy

Gambling has a zero-sum economic effect in its market and, like legalizing cocaine, the socio-economic costs of legalizing gambling overwhelm the benefits

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

Crime goes up 10 percent due to the gambling by the third year after racinos or slot machines are open, and then it continues upward after that

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

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