No reputable economist anywhere believes it's gambling an economic tool — 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
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 socio-economic impact of gambling addiction is comparable to drug and alcohol addiction — 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
State-sponsored gambling produces no product, no new wealth, and so it makes no genuine contribution to economic development — 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
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 permitting gambling enterprises to flourish in the United States and abroad, the United States undermines global socio-economic stability in contravention of… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
While advocates of legalized gambling say it brings in revenues needed for education and other uses, it actually has led to higher… — 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
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
