From the The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission an entity of the Southern Baptist Convention:

Studies show ‘you can be a loser, too’

First, and most importantly, it should be emphasized that the losers are the ones who provide or will be providing these so-called financial gains.

That is why gambling is a regressive tax — it taxes the poorest citizens because statistics show that it is those who can least afford to gamble that do most of the gambling.

Second, the leaders of these communities are not counting the costs to their community in increased crime.

In a July 2004 report funded and published by the U.S. Department of Justice, it was found that there were significant connections between gambling and crime. More than 30 percent of pathological gamblers who had been arrested in the two cities at the center of this study — Las Vegas and Des Moines, Iowa — reported having committed a robbery within the past year. Nearly one-third admitted to committing the robbery to pay for gambling or to pay gambling debts, and about 13 percent had assaulted someone to get money.

Thank you for the link Mrs. H!

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