Failure Quotes by John Warren Kindt

Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts

— John Warren Kindt

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

It becomes a cannibalization of your pre-existing economy

— John Warren Kindt

Legalized gambling is the leading cause of bankruptcy

— John Warren Kindt

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

27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers

— John Warren Kindt

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

For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy

— John Warren Kindt

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

In convenience gambling scenarios, discretionary spending and nondiscretionary addicted gambling dollars were transferred from other forms of consumer expenditures

— John Warren Kindt

Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.

— John Warren Kindt

This is an industry that generates addicted gamblers and they are desperate to get money

— John Warren Kindt