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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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An Osage tribal study found that between $41 million to $50 million left a 50-mile radius around their own casino
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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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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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Lotteries boost state revenues in the short run but don't feed the economy in the long run
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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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It's lose, lose for the taxpayer
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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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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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Bankruptcies increase 18 percent to 42 percent above the national average
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My bottom line is this is no time to be gambling with our economy
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A study in Illinois in the mid-1990s found that 65 percent of businesses were hurt by the proximity of gambling
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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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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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The socio-economic impact of gambling addiction is comparable to drug and alcohol addiction
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The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away
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Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts
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The social costs, and the increased tax costs due to addicted gamblers, stay behind
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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
John Warren Kindt