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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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

It's lose, lose for the taxpayer

— John Warren Kindt

Thirty-seven percent of gamblers dip into their savings to fulfill their habit

— John Warren Kindt

The military should get rid of video gambling devices on nearly 100 overseas bases and posts

— John Warren Kindt

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

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

Another threat to stability is the rise of Internet gambling

— John Warren Kindt

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

Gambling is being subsidized by the taxpayers

— John Warren Kindt

And as far as jobs go, for every one job that the casino creates, one is lost in the 35-mile feeder market

— John Warren Kindt

The socio-economic impact of gambling addiction is comparable to drug and alcohol addiction

— John Warren Kindt

Therefore 5,000 new video gambling machines costs the economy 5,000 lost jobs each year

— John Warren Kindt

When the money is not spent on cars and refrigerators and is instead dropped into a slot machine, it leaves the economy

— John Warren Kindt

Movies and Disney World don't create addicts

— John Warren Kindt