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

This is an industry that generates addicted gamblers and they are desperate to get money

Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.

The casinos are walking out of states with at least $1 billion in their pockets to Las Vegas

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

Gambling is a catalyst for economic downturn

Besides creating more compulsive gamblers, money spent on lotteries isn't spent on other goods such as clothing or computers, which would trickle through to retailers, manufacturers and other parts of the economy