Crime goes up 10 percent due to the gambling by the third year after racinos or slot machines are open, and then it continues upward after that

If you want your 401k to come back, recriminalize gambling

In convenience gambling scenarios, discretionary spending and nondiscretionary addicted gambling dollars were transferred from other forms of consumer expenditures

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

A study in Illinois in the mid-1990s found that 65 percent of businesses were hurt by the proximity of gambling

Bankruptcies will be up 18 to 42 percent around racinos areas tracks as people lose their money

Clothing sales plummet, rent delinquencies mount and even grocery sales shrink as gamblers, having tapped out their entertainment budgets, dip into dollars set aside for necessities