If the government wants to stimulate the economy, it should outlaw gambling — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Gamblers spend 10 percent less on food; 25 percent less on clothing and 35 percent less on savings — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Bankruptcies increase 18 percent to 42 percent above the national average — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
The lightning spread of 'Western-style' gambling overseas has increased the problems of addicted and problem gamblers, organized crime and alleged corruption in… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
For every dollar of revenue generated by gambling, taxpayers must pay at least $3 in increased criminal justice costs, social welfare expenses,… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
The common mistake that business people make is they're going to get drive-by business...Only gas stations are helped — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
The gambling industry has a tendency to find public figures ... and these persons are used for their public image. These people… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Clothing sales plummet, rent delinquencies mount and even grocery sales shrink as gamblers, having tapped out their entertainment budgets, dip into dollars… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Lotteries boost state revenues in the short run but don't feed the economy in the long run — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
You bring in gambling into a major population base, and the more people you have going into a casino, the more people… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
The social costs, and the increased tax costs due to addicted gamblers, stay behind — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Any legislator who says he doesn't see the downside hasn't done his homework — 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
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
It's time to wipe the slate clean, recriminalize gambling, just like we did in this country 100 years ago — 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
A 1999 report by a bipartisan federal panel on gambling concluded the United States should put a hold on further casinos until… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government — 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
