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Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government

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The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away
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Movies and Disney World don't create addicts
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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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Studies in Australia have verified this drain on the economy by video gambling machines
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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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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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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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Bankruptcies increase 18 percent to 42 percent above the national average
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