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27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers

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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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State-sponsored gambling produces no product, no new wealth, and so it makes no genuine contribution to economic development
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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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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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The social costs, and the increased tax costs due to addicted gamblers, stay behind
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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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