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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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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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My bottom line is this is no time to be gambling with our economy
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Gambling is being subsidized by the taxpayers
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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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Lotteries boost state revenues in the short run but don't feed the economy in the long run
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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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Actually, they should just roll it all back get rid of gambling...It destabilizes the U.S. 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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Studies in Australia have verified this drain on the economy by video gambling machines
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For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy
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The common mistake that business people make is they're going to get drive-by business...Only gas stations are helped
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Movies and Disney World don't create addicts
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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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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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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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