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It's lose, lose for the taxpayer

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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 gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away
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Lotteries boost state revenues in the short run but don't feed the economy in the long run
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When governments legalize and encourage gambling, they are creating addictions among their citizens
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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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$60,000 spent in a consumer economy multiplies by respending into $180,000
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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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Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government
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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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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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My bottom line is this is no time to be gambling with our 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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Actually, they should just roll it all back get rid of gambling...It destabilizes the U.S. economy
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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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Legalized gambling is the leading cause of bankruptcy
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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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If you want your 401k to come back, recriminalize gambling
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The real loss by gambling is $180,000 to the consumer economy for each slot machine
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Movies and Disney World don't create addicts
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