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It is not economic development it's about taking money out of the consumer economy and shipping it off to Las Vegas

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Gambling is being subsidized by the taxpayers
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The social costs, and the increased tax costs due to addicted gamblers, stay behind
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The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away
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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
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For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy
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It's lose, lose for the taxpayer
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Sociologists almost uniformly report that increased gambling activities, which are promoted as sociologically 'acceptable' and which are made 'accessible' to larger numbers of people will increase the number of pathological gamblers
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No reputable economist anywhere believes it's gambling an economic tool
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State-sponsored gambling produces no product, no new wealth, and so it makes no genuine contribution to economic development
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The faster the gambling activity, the more highly addictive it is and the more addictive the gambling activity is, the more revenue it will generate for the industry
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The casinos are walking out of states with at least $1 billion in their pockets to Las Vegas
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A study in Illinois in the mid-1990s found that 65 percent of businesses were hurt by the proximity of gambling
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$60,000 spent in a consumer economy multiplies by respending into $180,000
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Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts
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Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government
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An Osage tribal study found that between $41 million to $50 million left a 50-mile radius around their own casino
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The real loss by gambling is $180,000 to the consumer economy for each slot machine
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Your social costs, your costs to the taxpayers, are $3 for every $1 of benefits, it's not good economic development
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And as far as jobs go, for every one job that the casino creates, one is lost in the 35-mile feeder market
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