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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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We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling
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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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You bring in gambling into a major population base, and the more people you have going into a casino, the more people you have hooked on gambling
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The social costs, and the increased tax costs due to addicted gamblers, stay behind
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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
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Lotteries boost state revenues in the short run but don't feed the economy in the long run
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If gambling were banned, those social costs would drop, tax revenues from consumer goods would increase, and money would be pumped into the productive economic sector
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Another threat to stability is the rise of Internet gambling
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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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I would hate to see the state of Wisconsin make another mistake and locate another casino in a high-density population area
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While gambling addiction can be a social justice reason for some to ban gambling, the economic evidence suggests that the social and economic costs of gambling are $3 to the taxpayers for every $1 in benefits
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If you want your 401k to come back, recriminalize gambling
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For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy
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What we really need is a federal intervention plan, which calls for a moratorium on gambling in the U.S.
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$60,000 spent in a consumer economy multiplies by respending into $180,000
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27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers
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When governments legalize and encourage gambling, they are creating addictions among their citizens
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Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government
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Gambling is being subsidized by the taxpayers
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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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