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
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
Bankruptcies will be up 18 to 42 percent around racinos areas tracks as people lose their money — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Sociologists almost uniformly report that increased gambling activities, which are promoted as sociologically 'acceptable' and which are made 'accessible' to larger numbers… — 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
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
No reputable economist anywhere believes it's gambling an economic tool — 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
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
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
In 1993, 40 percent of Minnesota restaurateurs reported declines attributed to casinos — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
The casinos are walking out of states with at least $1 billion in their pockets to Las Vegas — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Gambling drains the economy by taking money away from grocery stores and retail businesses and putting it in the hands of an… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Although crime and corruption decreases within a one-mile radius of a casino, it increases 10 percent within a 35-mile radius by the… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Gambling addicts usually lose their focus at work and problem military gambling poses a national security threat — 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
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
The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away — 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
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
Crime goes up 10 percent due to the gambling by the third year after racinos or slot machines are open, and then… — 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 addiction rate will go up if you have gambling in this area — 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
