Improving Texans’ Lives by Preventing More Victims.
— The business model of online gambling and casino gambling depends existentially on gambling disorders and addicted gamblers. Gambling businesses do not receive a sustainable return on invested capital without those gamblers. As reported in the Wall Street Journal recently, online bookies track gambler-user behavior 24 hours a day. They collect voluminous data, as many as 180 items per gambler, including on how much time gamblers spend on a site or app, how much money they gamble (and lose), and on what type of bets they place on which sports. All in aid of maximum profit extraction. Likewise, casinos collect voluminous gambler data and cater to what they refer to as “VIPs,” which is code for gambling addicts and soon-to-be addicts.
— Sports gambling is out of control, ruining the integrity of competition. The recent scandals—just google “sports gambling scandals”—are just the tip of a surfacing iceberg.
— Casinos promise the world but in fact correlate with, causally, diminished economic prosperity: slower job growth, dampened sales tax revenues, and slower growth in local gross domestic product. End result: lower living standards and more poverty.
— And of course there’s the societal harms – public health harms and community well-being harms – of casinos and other types of commercial gambling: the causal links (social co-morbidities) between gambling and (i) alcohol and other substance addictions, (ii) mental health crises, (iii) human trafficking, (iv) embezzlement, (v) other crime, (vi) child neglect, (vii) spousal abuse, (viii) suicide, and (ix) money laundering, etc.
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Texans Against Gambling:
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educates Texans about the social, financial, and relational harms of gambling; and
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advocates against any expansion of gambling in the State of Texas.
Texans Against Gambling 