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Actually, they should just roll it all back get rid of gambling...It destabilizes the U.S. economy
John Warren Kindt
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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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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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Movies and Disney World don't create addicts
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The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away
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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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Gambling is being subsidized by the taxpayers
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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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No reputable economist anywhere believes it's gambling an economic tool
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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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State-sponsored gambling produces no product, no new wealth, and so it makes no genuine contribution to economic development
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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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Legalized gambling is the leading cause of bankruptcy
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Another threat to stability is the rise of Internet gambling
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It's lose, lose for the taxpayer
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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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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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For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy
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