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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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The real loss by gambling is $180,000 to the consumer economy for each slot machine
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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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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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For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy
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We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling
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The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away
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Movies and Disney World don't create addicts
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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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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 is being subsidized by the taxpayers
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