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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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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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Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government
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Another threat to stability is the rise of Internet gambling
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Gambling is being subsidized by the taxpayers
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Studies in Australia have verified this drain on the economy by video gambling machines
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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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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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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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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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Gambling is a catalyst for economic downturn
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The social costs, and the increased tax costs due to addicted gamblers, stay behind
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No reputable economist anywhere believes it's gambling an economic tool
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It's lose, lose for the taxpayer
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It is not economic development it's about taking money out of the consumer economy and shipping it off to Las Vegas
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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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27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers
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Movies and Disney World don't create addicts
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Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts
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The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away
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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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