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27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers

A 1999 report by a bipartisan federal panel on gambling concluded the United States should put a hold on further casinos until it is clear what the impact is on America

Although crime and corruption decreases within a one-mile radius of a casino, it increases 10 percent within a 35-mile radius by the third year the casino is open.

And as far as jobs go, for every one job that the casino creates, one is lost in the 35-mile feeder market

An Osage tribal study found that between $41 million to $50 million left a 50-mile radius around their own casino

Another threat to stability is the rise of Internet gambling

Any legislator who says he doesn't see the downside hasn't done his homework

A shrinking economy means lost sales and lost jobs

A study in Illinois in the mid-1990s found that 65 percent of businesses were hurt by the proximity of gambling

Bankruptcies and addictions increase in areas with casinos

Bankruptcies increase 18 percent to 42 percent above the national average

Bankruptcies will be up 18 to 42 percent around racinos areas tracks as people lose their money

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

Casinos don't bring business except for the gambling boys

Clothing sales plummet, rent delinquencies mount and even grocery sales shrink as gamblers, having tapped out their entertainment budgets, dip into dollars set aside for necessities

Crime goes up 10 percent due to the gambling by the third year after racinos or slot machines are open, and then it continues upward after that

Every video [slot] gambling machine takes $60,000 out of the consumer economy

For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy

For every dollar of revenue generated by gambling, taxpayers must pay at least $3 in increased criminal justice costs, social welfare expenses, high regulatory costs, and increased infrastructure expenditures

For every three machines, you lose two jobs out of the surrounding economy because people are dumping their money on gambling

Gambling is a bad deal for taxpayers

Gambling is a catalyst for economic downturn

Gamblers spend 10 percent less on food; 25 percent less on clothing and 35 percent less on savings

Gambling addicts usually lose their focus at work and problem military gambling poses a national security threat

Gambling drains the economy by taking money away from grocery stores and retail businesses and putting it in the hands of an industry that produces no product

Gambling has a zero-sum economic effect in its market and, like legalizing cocaine, the socio-economic costs of legalizing gambling overwhelm the benefits

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

Gambling is being subsidized by the taxpayers

Generally, traditional businesses were slow to recognize the way in which legalized gambling captured dollars from across the entire spectrum of the various consumer markets, but now they know

If gambling were banned, those social costs would drop, tax revenues from consumer goods would increase, and money would be pumped into the productive economic sector

If the government wants to stimulate the economy, it should outlaw gambling

In 1993, 40 percent of Minnesota restaurateurs reported declines attributed to casinos

In convenience gambling scenarios, discretionary spending and nondiscretionary addicted gambling dollars were transferred from other forms of consumer expenditures

In permitting gambling enterprises to flourish in the United States and abroad, the United States undermines global socio-economic stability in contravention of its international obligations

It is not economic development; it's about taking money out of the consumer economy and shipping it off to Las Vegas

It's lose, lose for the taxpayer

It's time to wipe the slate clean, recriminalize gambling, just like we did in this country 100 years ago

I would hate to see the state of Wisconsin make another mistake and locate another casino in a high-density population area

Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government

Legalized gambling is the leading cause of bankruptcy

Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.

Lotteries boost state revenues in the short run but don't feed the economy in the long run

Movies and Disney World don't create addicts

My bottom line is this is no time to be gambling with our economy

No reputable economist anywhere believes it's gambling an economic tool

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.

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

State-sponsored gambling produces no product, no new wealth, and so it makes no genuine contribution to economic development

Studies in Australia have verified this drain on the economy by video gambling machines

Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts