If the government wants to stimulate the economy, it should outlaw gambling

People will spend a tremendous amount of money in casinos, money they normally would spend on refrigerators or a new car. Local businesses will suffer because they'll lose consumer dollars to casinos.

My bottom line is this is no time to be gambling with our economy

The gambling industry has a tendency to find public figures ... and these persons are used for their public image. These people generally come in for a couple of years and then they sell out and it's 100 percent owned by out-of-state interests

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

While gambling addiction can be a social justice reason for some to ban gambling, the economic evidence suggests that the social and economic costs of gambling are $3 to the taxpayers for every $1 in benefits

Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.