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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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It is not economic development it's about taking money out of the consumer economy and shipping it off to Las Vegas
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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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The social costs, and the increased tax costs due to addicted gamblers, stay behind
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No reputable economist anywhere believes it's gambling an economic tool
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Bankruptcies increase 18 percent to 42 percent above the national average
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My bottom line is this is no time to be gambling with our economy
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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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If you want your 401k to come back, recriminalize gambling
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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 being subsidized by the taxpayers
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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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Another threat to stability is the rise of Internet gambling
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When governments legalize and encourage gambling, they are creating addictions among their citizens
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Legalized gambling is the leading cause of bankruptcy
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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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What we really need is a federal intervention plan, which calls for a moratorium on gambling in the U.S.
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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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People will spend a tremendous amount of money in casinos, money they normally would spend on refrigerators or a new car. Local businesses will suffer because they'll lose consumer dollars to casinos.
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Therefore 5,000 new video gambling machines costs the economy 5,000 lost jobs each year
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