When governments legalize and encourage gambling, they are creating addictions among their citizens — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
For every three machines, you lose two jobs out of the surrounding economy because people are dumping their money on gambling — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
What we really need is a federal intervention plan, which calls for a moratorium on gambling in the U.S. — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
The socio-economic impact of gambling addiction is comparable to drug and alcohol addiction — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
When the money is not spent on cars and refrigerators and is instead dropped into a slot machine, it leaves the economy — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
The military should get rid of video gambling devices on nearly 100 overseas bases and posts — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
For every dollar of revenue generated by gambling, taxpayers must pay at least $3 in increased criminal justice costs, social welfare expenses,… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
You bring in gambling into a major population base, and the more people you have going into a casino, the more people… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population center — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Generally, traditional businesses were slow to recognize the way in which legalized gambling captured dollars from across the entire spectrum of the… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
While gambling addiction can be a social justice reason for some to ban gambling, the economic evidence suggests that the social and… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Gambling has a zero-sum economic effect in its market and, like legalizing cocaine, the socio-economic costs of legalizing gambling overwhelm the benefits — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
The faster the gambling activity, the more highly addictive it is; and the more addictive the gambling activity is, the more revenue… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
People will spend a tremendous amount of money in casinos, money they normally would spend on refrigerators or a new car. Local… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
The real loss by gambling is $180,000 to the consumer economy for each slot machine — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
An Osage tribal study found that between $41 million to $50 million left a 50-mile radius around their own casino — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Any legislator who says he doesn't see the downside hasn't done his homework — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
$60,000 spent in a consumer economy multiplies by respending into $180,000 — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Studies in Australia have verified this drain on the economy by video gambling machines — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
A study in Illinois in the mid-1990s found that 65 percent of businesses were hurt by the proximity of gambling — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Lotteries boost state revenues in the short run but don't feed the economy in the long run — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Gamblers spend 10 percent less on food; 25 percent less on clothing and 35 percent less on savings — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Bankruptcies will be up 18 to 42 percent around racinos areas tracks as people lose their money — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
In 1993, 40 percent of Minnesota restaurateurs reported declines attributed to casinos — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
I would hate to see the state of Wisconsin make another mistake and locate another casino in a high-density population area — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Every video [slot] gambling machine takes $60,000 out of the consumer economy — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Your social costs, your costs to the taxpayers, are $3 for every $1 of benefits, it's not good economic development — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
My bottom line is this is no time to be gambling with our economy — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Utah sells itself to Fortune 500 companies as a noncasino state where employers don't have to be concerned about absenteeism and other… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
In convenience gambling scenarios, discretionary spending and nondiscretionary addicted gambling dollars were transferred from other forms of consumer expenditures — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Gambling interests hire lots of economists to do impact studies, but what you need is cost-benefit analysis, and you'll never see the… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
A 1999 report by a bipartisan federal panel on gambling concluded the United States should put a hold on further casinos until… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Besides creating more compulsive gamblers, money spent on lotteries isn't spent on other goods such as clothing or computers, which would trickle… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
If gambling were banned, those social costs would drop, tax revenues from consumer goods would increase, and money would be pumped into… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
The gambling industry has a tendency to find public figures ... and these persons are used for their public image. These people… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
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 — John Warren Kindt Copy Share
In permitting gambling enterprises to flourish in the United States and abroad, the United States undermines global socio-economic stability in contravention of its international… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share
27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers — John Warren Kindt Copy Share
Gambling interests hire lots of economists to do impact studies, but what you need is cost-benefit analysis, and you'll never see the industry finance… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share
For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy — John Warren Kindt Copy Share
Gambling has a zero-sum economic effect in its market and, like legalizing cocaine, the socio-economic costs of legalizing gambling overwhelm the benefits — John Warren Kindt Copy Share
In convenience gambling scenarios, discretionary spending and nondiscretionary addicted gambling dollars were transferred from other forms of consumer expenditures — John Warren Kindt Copy Share
This is an industry that generates addicted gamblers and they are desperate to get money — John Warren Kindt Copy Share
Thirty-seven percent of gamblers dip into their savings to fulfill their habit — John Warren Kindt Copy Share
The military should get rid of video gambling devices on nearly 100 overseas bases and posts — John Warren Kindt Copy Share
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