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It's lose, lose for the taxpayer
Gambling is a bad deal for taxpayers
Gambling is a catalyst for economic downturn
Movies and Disney World don't create addicts
Gambling is being subsidized by the taxpayers
A shrinking economy means lost sales and lost jobs
Legalized gambling is the leading cause of bankruptcy
Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.
It becomes a cannibalization of your pre-existing economy
Casinos don't bring business except for the gambling boys
Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts
Bankruptcies and addictions increase in areas with casinos
If you want your 401k to come back, recriminalize gambling
One to 2 percent of the population becomes addicted gamblers
Another threat to stability is the rise of Internet gambling
Your addiction rate will go up if you have gambling in this area
My bottom line is this is no time to be gambling with our economy
The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime
We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling
No reputable economist anywhere believes it's gambling an economic tool
Bankruptcies increase 18 percent to 42 percent above the national average
$60,000 spent in a consumer economy multiplies by respending into $180,000
If the government wants to stimulate the economy, it should outlaw gambling
Any legislator who says he doesn't see the downside hasn't done his homework
Every video [slot] gambling machine takes $60,000 out of the consumer economy
Thirty-seven percent of gamblers dip into their savings to fulfill their habit
Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government
For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy
The real loss by gambling is $180,000 to the consumer economy for each slot machine
The social costs, and the increased tax costs due to addicted gamblers, stay behind
The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away
In 1993, 40 percent of Minnesota restaurateurs reported declines attributed to casinos
27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers
Therefore 5,000 new video gambling machines costs the economy 5,000 lost jobs each year
Studies in Australia have verified this drain on the economy by video gambling machines
This is an industry that generates addicted gamblers and they are desperate to get money
Lotteries boost state revenues in the short run but don't feed the economy in the long run
The socio-economic impact of gambling addiction is comparable to drug and alcohol addiction
The military should get rid of video gambling devices on nearly 100 overseas bases and posts
The casinos are walking out of states with at least $1 billion in their pockets to Las Vegas
Bankruptcies will be up 18 to 42 percent around racinos areas tracks as people lose their money
Gamblers spend 10 percent less on food; 25 percent less on clothing and 35 percent less on savings
Actually, they should just roll it all back get rid of gambling...It destabilizes the U.S. economy
When governments legalize and encourage gambling, they are creating addictions among their citizens
What we really need is a federal intervention plan, which calls for a moratorium on gambling in the U.S.
It's time to wipe the slate clean, recriminalize gambling, just like we did in this country 100 years ago
And as far as jobs go, for every one job that the casino creates, one is lost in the 35-mile feeder market
A study in Illinois in the mid-1990s found that 65 percent of businesses were hurt by the proximity of gambling
Gambling addicts usually lose their focus at work and problem military gambling poses a national security threat
An Osage tribal study found that between $41 million to $50 million left a 50-mile radius around their own casino