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Bankruptcies increase 18 percent to 42 percent above the national average
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State-sponsored gambling produces no product, no new wealth, and so it makes no genuine contribution to 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 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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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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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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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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