The smartest thing legislatures can do is get rid of lotteries and get those dollars buying consumer goods and get the sales… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling — 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
Besides creating more compulsive gamblers, money spent on lotteries isn't spent on other goods such as clothing or computers, which would trickle… — 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
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
27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers — John Warren Kindt Copy Share
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
For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy — John Warren Kindt Copy Share
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
In convenience gambling scenarios, discretionary spending and nondiscretionary addicted gambling dollars were transferred from other forms of consumer expenditures — John Warren Kindt Copy Share
This is an industry that generates addicted gamblers and they are desperate to get money — John Warren Kindt Copy Share
Thirty-seven percent of gamblers dip into their savings to fulfill their habit — John Warren Kindt Copy Share
The military should get rid of video gambling devices on nearly 100 overseas bases and posts — John Warren Kindt Copy Share
