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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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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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It's lose, lose for the taxpayer
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And as far as jobs go, for every one job that the casino creates, one is lost in the 35-mile feeder market
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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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