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
I would hate to see the state of Wisconsin make another mistake and locate another casino in a high-density population area
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
We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling
Lotteries boost state revenues in the short run but don't feed the economy in the long run
The smartest thing legislatures can do is get rid of lotteries and get those dollars buying consumer goods and get the sales tax revenues from that
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
The common mistake that business people make is they're going to get drive-by business...Only gas stations are helped
There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population center
In convenience gambling scenarios, discretionary spending and nondiscretionary addicted gambling dollars were transferred from other forms of consumer expenditures
The lightning spread of 'Western-style' gambling overseas has increased the problems of addicted and problem gamblers, organized crime and alleged corruption in Asia and the Middle East
Gambling is a bad deal for taxpayers
The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime
Then they're like addicts; they can't help themselves... They will steal, cheat, embezzle and commit other crimes just to get money to gamble
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
It becomes a cannibalization of your pre-existing economy
A study in Illinois in the mid-1990s found that 65 percent of businesses were hurt by the proximity of gambling
What we really need is a federal intervention plan, which calls for a moratorium on gambling in the U.S.
Actually, they should just roll it all back get rid of gambling...It destabilizes the U.S. economy
Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts
For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy
Utah sells itself to Fortune 500 companies as a noncasino state where employers don't have to be concerned about absenteeism and other problems associated with gambling
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
Bankruptcies will be up 18 to 42 percent around racinos areas tracks as people lose their money
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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