When governments legalize and encourage gambling, they are creating addictions among their citizens — 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 through to retailers, manufacturers and other parts of the economy — 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
