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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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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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The casinos are walking out of states with at least $1 billion in their pockets to Las Vegas
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Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts
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We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling
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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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No reputable economist anywhere believes it's gambling an economic tool
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$60,000 spent in a consumer economy multiplies by respending into $180,000
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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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Gambling is a catalyst for economic downturn
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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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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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Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government
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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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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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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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Movies and Disney World don't create addicts
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Bankruptcies increase 18 percent to 42 percent above the national average
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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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If you want your 401k to come back, recriminalize gambling
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