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We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling
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Besides creating more compulsive gamblers, money spent on lotteries isn't spent on other goods such as clothing or computers, which would trickle through to retailers, manufacturers and other parts of the economy
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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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What we really need is a federal intervention plan, which calls for a moratorium on gambling in the U.S.
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Movies and Disney World don't create addicts
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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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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 addicts usually lose their focus at work and problem military gambling poses a national security threat
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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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Legalized gambling is the leading cause of bankruptcy
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The faster the gambling activity, the more highly addictive it is and the more addictive the gambling activity is, the more revenue it will generate for the industry
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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 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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If you want your 401k to come back, recriminalize gambling
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The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away
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The socio-economic impact of gambling addiction is comparable to drug and alcohol addiction
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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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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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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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