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

It's lose, lose for the taxpayer

Therefore 5,000 new video gambling machines costs the economy 5,000 lost jobs each year

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

In 1993, 40 percent of Minnesota restaurateurs reported declines attributed to casinos

State-sponsored gambling produces no product, no new wealth, and so it makes no genuine contribution to economic development

I would hate to see the state of Wisconsin make another mistake and locate another casino in a high-density population area