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

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Another threat to stability is the rise of Internet gambling
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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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Movies and Disney World don't create addicts
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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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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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Gambling has a zero-sum economic effect in its market and, like legalizing cocaine, the socio-economic costs of legalizing gambling overwhelm the benefits
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No reputable economist anywhere believes it's gambling an economic tool
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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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Studies in Australia have verified this drain on the economy by video gambling machines
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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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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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State-sponsored gambling produces no product, no new wealth, and so it makes no genuine contribution to economic development
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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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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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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 gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away
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We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling
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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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Gambling is being subsidized by the taxpayers
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It's lose, lose for the taxpayer
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