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When governments legalize and encourage gambling, they are creating addictions among their citizens
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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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The casinos are walking out of states with at least $1 billion in their pockets to Las Vegas
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Bankruptcies increase 18 percent to 42 percent above the national average
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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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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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Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government
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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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Therefore 5,000 new video gambling machines costs the economy 5,000 lost jobs each year
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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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Legalized gambling is the leading cause of bankruptcy
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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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For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy
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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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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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Actually, they should just roll it all back get rid of gambling...It destabilizes the U.S. economy
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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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