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

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Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts
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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 real loss by gambling is $180,000 to the consumer economy for each slot machine
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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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Studies in Australia have verified this drain on the economy by video gambling machines
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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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The social costs, and the increased tax costs due to addicted gamblers, stay behind
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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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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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People will spend a tremendous amount of money in casinos, money they normally would spend on refrigerators or a new car. Local businesses will suffer because they'll lose consumer dollars to casinos.
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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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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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Another threat to stability is the rise of Internet gambling
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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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Bankruptcies increase 18 percent to 42 percent above the national average
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Legalized gambling is the leading cause of bankruptcy
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The socio-economic impact of gambling addiction is comparable to drug and alcohol addiction
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It's lose, lose for the taxpayer
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