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My bottom line is this is no time to be gambling with our 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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The real loss by gambling is $180,000 to the consumer economy for each slot machine
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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 is being subsidized by the taxpayers
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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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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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27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers
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If you want your 401k to come back, recriminalize gambling
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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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What we really need is a federal intervention plan, which calls for a moratorium on gambling in the U.S.
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The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away
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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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Gambling addicts usually lose their focus at work and problem military gambling poses a national security threat
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It's lose, lose for the taxpayer
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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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No reputable economist anywhere believes it's gambling an economic tool
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The social costs, and the increased tax costs due to addicted gamblers, stay behind
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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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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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