Gambling is a bad deal for taxpayers

Your addiction rate will go up if you have gambling in this area

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

The socio-economic impact of gambling addiction is comparable to drug and alcohol addiction

Gambling interests hire lots of economists to do impact studies, but what you need is cost-benefit analysis, and you'll never see the industry finance those

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

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