Gambling is a bad deal for taxpayers

It's time to wipe the slate clean, recriminalize gambling, just like we did in this country 100 years ago

Thirty-seven percent of gamblers dip into their savings to fulfill their habit

Sociologists almost uniformly report that increased gambling activities, which are promoted as sociologically 'acceptable' and which are made 'accessible' to larger numbers of people will increase the number of pathological gamblers

Gambling has a zero-sum economic effect in its market and, like legalizing cocaine, the socio-economic costs of legalizing gambling overwhelm the benefits

No reputable economist anywhere believes it's gambling an economic tool

Another threat to stability is the rise of Internet gambling