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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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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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Movies and Disney World don't create addicts
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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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What we really need is a federal intervention plan, which calls for a moratorium on gambling in the U.S.
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Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government
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Legalized gambling is the leading cause of bankruptcy
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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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Another threat to stability is the rise of Internet gambling
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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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Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts
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The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away
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If you want your 401k to come back, recriminalize gambling
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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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Gambling is a catalyst for economic downturn
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Bankruptcies increase 18 percent to 42 percent above the national average
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It is not economic development it's about taking money out of the consumer economy and shipping it off to Las Vegas
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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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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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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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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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