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

Sociologists almost uniformly report that increased gambling activities, which are promoted as sociologically 'acceptable' and which are made 'accessible' to larger numbers of people will increase the number of pathological gamblers

Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.

In permitting gambling enterprises to flourish in the United States and abroad, the United States undermines global socio-economic stability in contravention of its international obligations

Lotteries boost state revenues in the short run but don't feed the economy in the long run

Any legislator who says he doesn't see the downside hasn't done his homework

Bankruptcies will be up 18 to 42 percent around racinos areas tracks as people lose their money