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When governments legalize and encourage gambling, they are creating addictions among their citizens
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Studies in Australia have verified this drain on the economy by video gambling machines
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No reputable economist anywhere believes it's gambling an economic tool
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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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Therefore 5,000 new video gambling machines costs the economy 5,000 lost jobs each year
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Legalized gambling is the leading cause of bankruptcy
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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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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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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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Lotteries boost state revenues in the short run but don't feed the economy in the long run
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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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Another threat to stability is the rise of Internet gambling
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The social costs, and the increased tax costs due to addicted gamblers, stay behind
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Gambling is being subsidized by the taxpayers
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27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers
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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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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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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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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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