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The social costs, and the increased tax costs due to addicted gamblers, stay behind
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$60,000 spent in a consumer economy multiplies by respending into $180,000
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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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Lotteries boost state revenues in the short run but don't feed the economy in the long run
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27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers
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Therefore 5,000 new video gambling machines costs the economy 5,000 lost jobs each year
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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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The casinos are walking out of states with at least $1 billion in their pockets to Las Vegas
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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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State-sponsored gambling produces no product, no new wealth, and so it makes no genuine contribution to economic development
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Legalized gambling is the leading cause of bankruptcy
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Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government
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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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The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away
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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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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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Bankruptcies increase 18 percent to 42 percent above the national average
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Gambling is a catalyst for economic downturn
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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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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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