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Gambling in America

01-25-2006, 04:51 AM

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Gambling in America

Would you be surprised to learn that money spent on legal gambling in the U.S. exceeds that spent on major league baseball, the NFL, NASCAR, movies, CDs, concerts and Broadway shows... combined?
This is for 2003
Total spent on spectator sports in the U.S.: $10.9 billion. On non-sport live entertainment: $10.7 billion. On recorded music: $12.9 billion. On movies: $32.5 billion. Total: $67 billion.
2003 gross gambling revenues: $78.6 billion
the 1999 National Gambling Impact Study Commission estimated illegal sports betting at somewhere between $80 and $380 billion annually.
How much of this money is from the poor people who can't get out of poverty

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