The smartest thing legislatures can do is get rid of lotteries and get those dollars buying consumer goods and get the sales… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
It is not economic development; it's about taking money out of the consumer economy and shipping it off to Las Vegas — 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
For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy — 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
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
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
The real loss by gambling is $180,000 to the consumer economy for each slot machine — 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
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
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 Image
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 Image
27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers — 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 industry finance… — 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
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
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
This is an industry that generates addicted gamblers and they are desperate to get money — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
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