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

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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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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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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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Therefore 5,000 new video gambling machines costs the economy 5,000 lost jobs each year
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The real loss by gambling is $180,000 to the consumer economy for each slot machine
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Legalized gambling is the leading cause of bankruptcy
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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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Studies in Australia have verified this drain on the economy by video gambling machines
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The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away
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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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Gambling is a catalyst for economic downturn
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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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Gambling addicts usually lose their focus at work and problem military gambling poses a national security threat
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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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Bankruptcies increase 18 percent to 42 percent above the national average
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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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If you want your 401k to come back, recriminalize gambling
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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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Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts
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$60,000 spent in a consumer economy multiplies by respending into $180,000
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