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Bankruptcies increase 18 percent to 42 percent above the national average

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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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Another threat to stability is the rise of Internet gambling
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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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The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away
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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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