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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 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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Gambling is being subsidized by the taxpayers
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Studies in Australia have verified this drain on the economy by video gambling machines
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Movies and Disney World don't create addicts
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The socio-economic impact of gambling addiction is comparable to drug and alcohol addiction
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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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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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Therefore 5,000 new video gambling machines costs the economy 5,000 lost jobs each year
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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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Another threat to stability is the rise of Internet gambling
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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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What we really need is a federal intervention plan, which calls for a moratorium on gambling in the U.S.
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It's lose, lose for the taxpayer
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When governments legalize and encourage gambling, they are creating addictions among their citizens
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The social costs, and the increased tax costs due to addicted gamblers, stay behind
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$60,000 spent in a consumer economy multiplies by respending into $180,000
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The real loss by gambling is $180,000 to the consumer economy for each slot machine
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Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government
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