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My bottom line is this is no time to be gambling with our economy

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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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The common mistake that business people make is they're going to get drive-by business...Only gas stations are helped
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$60,000 spent in a consumer economy multiplies by respending into $180,000
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We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling
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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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Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating 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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Actually, they should just roll it all back get rid of gambling...It destabilizes the U.S. economy
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It's lose, lose for the taxpayer
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For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy
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Studies in Australia have verified this drain on the economy by video gambling machines
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Gambling is being subsidized by the taxpayers
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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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Gambling addicts usually lose their focus at work and problem military gambling poses a national security threat
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The real loss by gambling is $180,000 to the consumer economy for each slot machine
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If you want your 401k to come back, recriminalize gambling
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The social costs, and the increased tax costs due to addicted gamblers, stay behind
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Bankruptcies increase 18 percent to 42 percent above the national average
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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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There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population center
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