Gambling addicts usually lose their focus at work and problem military gambling poses a national security threat

Clothing sales plummet, rent delinquencies mount and even grocery sales shrink as gamblers, having tapped out their entertainment budgets, dip into dollars set aside for necessities

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

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

In convenience gambling scenarios, discretionary spending and nondiscretionary addicted gambling dollars were transferred from other forms of consumer expenditures

Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government

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