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From the beginning of our joy ride with legalized gambling, there was a worry that more gambling would mean more overextended suckers addicted to slots, poker tables, lotteries and roulette wheels.

Now we know it’s true — only the addicts are not necessarily day trippers on tour buses.

They are also states, like Connecticut, New Jersey and New York — and most of their neighbors — desperate for cash, averse to raising taxes and doubling down on the one business that seemed to be eternally growing until it wasn’t.