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The key factor in determining direct
impacts is how the expenses are distributed.
Wages are invariably kept in the region. In all
cases, casino equipment is given to outside
companies, as is a state share of revenues, and
most of the tribal share of profits. The
existence
of a hotel in Shullsburg serves to keep
additional expenses in the region.
Social costs must be added to the impact
figures. The factor of pathological gambling
costs is, to a degree, illusive. Gambling is
pervasive
throughout the state, hence social costs
already exist. However, the added capacity of
the casinos and their greater proximity to
homes of players than existing casinos will
produce greater numbers of pathological gam-
Wisconsin Interest 39
TABLE II
Casino Adult Population Revenue from Revenue
from
in Region Region out of Region
(Capture rate %) (Millions) (Millions)
HUDSON 2,139,881 $182.4 $45.6
(30%) (80.0%) (20.0%)
LA CROSSE 442,537 53.1 34.1
(40%) (60.8%) (39.2%)
SHULLSBURG 803,222 25.4 76.7
(15%) (24.9%) (75.1%)
BELOIT 602,248 91.8 16.5
(60%) (84.8%) (15.2%)
KENOSHA 1,853,241 204.0 22.7
(40%) (90.0%) (10.0%)
OUTAGAMIE 692,827 22.5 20.4
(20%) (52.5%) (47.5%)
blers. In 1996 I, along with my colleagues
Ricardo Gazel and Dan Rickman, made a
detailed study of the costs imposed by
pathological
gamblers in the state of Wisconsin. In
later cost studies I participated in in South
Carolina, I determined a lower cost number of
$6299 per compulsive gambler and $3339 per
problem gambler. These are costs that the
gambler imposes upon strangers in the region.
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