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If you want your 401k to come back, recriminalize gambling

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The social costs, and the increased tax costs due to addicted gamblers, stay behind
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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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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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The common mistake that business people make is they're going to get drive-by business...Only gas stations are helped
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Gambling is a catalyst for economic downturn
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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 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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The socio-economic impact of gambling addiction is comparable to drug and alcohol addiction
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My bottom line is this is no time to be gambling with our 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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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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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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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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The real loss by gambling is $180,000 to the consumer economy for each slot machine
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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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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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Bankruptcies increase 18 percent to 42 percent above the national average
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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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The casinos are walking out of states with at least $1 billion in their pockets to Las Vegas
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