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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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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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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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The real loss by gambling is $180,000 to the consumer economy for each slot machine
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Bankruptcies increase 18 percent to 42 percent above the national average
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People will spend a tremendous amount of money in casinos, money they normally would spend on refrigerators or a new car. Local businesses will suffer because they'll lose consumer dollars to casinos.
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Gambling is being subsidized by the taxpayers
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No reputable economist anywhere believes it's gambling an economic tool
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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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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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If you want your 401k to come back, recriminalize gambling
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Gambling is a catalyst for economic downturn
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Movies and Disney World don't create addicts
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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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The social costs, and the increased tax costs due to addicted gamblers, stay behind
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The socio-economic impact of gambling addiction is comparable to drug and alcohol addiction
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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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Gambling addicts usually lose their focus at work and problem military gambling poses a national security threat
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Lotteries boost state revenues in the short run but don't feed the economy in the long run
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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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