Furthermore, the gaming industry directly employs nearly 33,500 and approximately 30,000 more people are working for companies that perform services or supply the casinos. These individuals use their income to make purchases and create a ripple effect in the state's economy. They buy houses, cars, groceries, gasoline, electricity, gas, and on and on. If the gaming industry is abolished, these people will no longer be able to make those purchases and the state would suffer many ancillary losses in addition to the losses of direct gaming taxes, employee income taxes and sales taxes from purchases made by the casinos. Business would decline due to the loss of income by the 63,500 people who are no longer working as a result of gaming.
Some economists say the ripple or rollover effect is seven times.
The ramifications would be disastrous.