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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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The social costs, and the increased tax costs due to addicted gamblers, stay behind
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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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When governments legalize and encourage gambling, they are creating addictions among their citizens
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The socio-economic impact of gambling addiction is comparable to drug and alcohol addiction
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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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Gambling addicts usually lose their focus at work and problem military gambling poses a national security threat
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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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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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Besides creating more compulsive gamblers, money spent on lotteries isn't spent on other goods such as clothing or computers, which would trickle through to retailers, manufacturers and other parts of the economy
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The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away
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27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers
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The real loss by gambling is $180,000 to the consumer economy for each slot machine
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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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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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Bankruptcies increase 18 percent to 42 percent above the national average
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No reputable economist anywhere believes it's gambling an economic tool
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If you want your 401k to come back, recriminalize 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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