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

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

Gambling is a catalyst for economic downturn

Although crime and corruption decreases within a one-mile radius of a casino, it increases 10 percent within a 35-mile radius by the third year the casino is open.

We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling

A shrinking economy means lost sales and lost jobs

If gambling were banned, those social costs would drop, tax revenues from consumer goods would increase, and money would be pumped into the productive economic sector