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

There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population center

Gambling is being subsidized by the taxpayers

For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy

And as far as jobs go, for every one job that the casino creates, one is lost in the 35-mile feeder market

What we really need is a federal intervention plan, which calls for a moratorium on gambling in the U.S.

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