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

A shrinking economy means lost sales and lost jobs

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.

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

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

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

It becomes a cannibalization of your pre-existing economy