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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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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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Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts
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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 socio-economic impact of gambling addiction is comparable to drug and alcohol addiction
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Gambling is being subsidized by the taxpayers
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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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Actually, they should just roll it all back get rid of gambling...It destabilizes the U.S. economy
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Movies and Disney World don't create addicts
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27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers
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What we really need is a federal intervention plan, which calls for a moratorium on gambling in the U.S.
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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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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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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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My bottom line is this is no time to be gambling with our economy
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Gambling is a catalyst for economic downturn
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For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy
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Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government
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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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We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling
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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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