John Warren Kindt Quotes

The social costs, and the increased tax costs due to addicted gamblers, stay behind

Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts

A study in Illinois in the mid-1990s found that 65 percent of businesses were hurt by the proximity of gambling

An Osage tribal study found that between $41 million to $50 million left a 50-mile radius around their own casino

Casinos don't bring business except for the gambling boys

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

Bankruptcies will be up 18 to 42 percent around racinos areas tracks as people lose their money

You bring in gambling into a major population base, and the more people you have going into a casino, the more people you have hooked on gambling

No reputable economist anywhere believes it's gambling an economic tool

A 1999 report by a bipartisan federal panel on gambling concluded the United States should put a hold on further casinos until it is clear what the impact is on America

Although crime and corruption decreases within a one-mile radius of a casino, it increases 10 percent within a 35-mile radius by the third year the casino is open.

If you want your 401k to come back, recriminalize gambling

When governments legalize and encourage gambling, they are creating addictions among their citizens

Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.

The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away

Gambling is a bad deal for taxpayers

The lightning spread of 'Western-style' gambling overseas has increased the problems of addicted and problem gamblers, organized crime and alleged corruption in Asia and the Middle East

While gambling addiction can be a social justice reason for some to ban gambling, the economic evidence suggests that the social and economic costs of gambling are $3 to the taxpayers for every $1 in benefits

If the government wants to stimulate the economy, it should outlaw gambling

Utah sells itself to Fortune 500 companies as a noncasino state where employers don't have to be concerned about absenteeism and other problems associated with gambling

Gambling addicts usually lose their focus at work and problem military gambling poses a national security threat

Generally, traditional businesses were slow to recognize the way in which legalized gambling captured dollars from across the entire spectrum of the various consumer markets, but now they know

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

Bankruptcies increase 18 percent to 42 percent above the national average

Gambling is being subsidized by the taxpayers

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

Your addiction rate will go up if you have gambling in this area

If gambling were banned, those social costs would drop, tax revenues from consumer goods would increase, and money would be pumped into the productive economic sector

For every dollar of revenue generated by gambling, taxpayers must pay at least $3 in increased criminal justice costs, social welfare expenses, high regulatory costs, and increased infrastructure expenditures

$60,000 spent in a consumer economy multiplies by respending into $180,000

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

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

Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government

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

People will spend a tremendous amount of money in casinos, money they normally would spend on refrigerators or a new car. Local businesses will suffer because they'll lose consumer dollars to casinos.

Every video [slot] gambling machine takes $60,000 out of the consumer economy

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

Movies and Disney World don't create addicts

The common mistake that business people make is they're going to get drive-by business...Only gas stations are helped

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 obligations

Gambling has a zero-sum economic effect in its market and, like legalizing cocaine, the socio-economic costs of legalizing gambling overwhelm the benefits

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

Clothing sales plummet, rent delinquencies mount and even grocery sales shrink as gamblers, having tapped out their entertainment budgets, dip into dollars set aside for necessities

The gambling industry has a tendency to find public figures ... and these persons are used for their public image. These people generally come in for a couple of years and then they sell out and it's 100 percent owned by out-of-state interests

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 those

Your social costs, your costs to the taxpayers, are $3 for every $1 of benefits, it's not good economic development

Besides creating more compulsive gamblers, money spent on lotteries isn't spent on other goods such as clothing or computers, which would trickle through to retailers, manufacturers and other parts of the economy

While advocates of legalized gambling say it brings in revenues needed for education and other uses, it actually has led to higher taxes, loss of jobs, economic disruption of non-gambling businesses, increased crime and higher social-welfare costs