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Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts

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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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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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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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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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Gambling has a zero-sum economic effect in its market and, like legalizing cocaine, the socio-economic costs of legalizing gambling overwhelm the benefits
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Movies and Disney World don't create addicts
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Studies in Australia have verified this drain on the economy by video gambling machines
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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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