John Warren Kindt Quotes

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

27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers

The real loss by gambling is $180,000 to the consumer economy for each slot machine

It's time to wipe the slate clean, recriminalize gambling, just like we did in this country 100 years ago

Another threat to stability is the rise of Internet gambling

Legalized gambling is the leading cause of bankruptcy

It's lose, lose for the taxpayer

What we really need is a federal intervention plan, which calls for a moratorium on gambling in the U.S.

The casinos are walking out of states with at least $1 billion in their pockets to Las Vegas

Bankruptcies and addictions increase in areas with casinos

One to 2 percent of the population becomes addicted gamblers

There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population center

Gamblers spend 10 percent less on food; 25 percent less on clothing and 35 percent less on savings

My bottom line is this is no time to be gambling with our economy

Gambling is a catalyst for economic downturn

The smartest thing legislatures can do is get rid of lotteries and get those dollars buying consumer goods and get the sales tax revenues from that

Sociologists almost uniformly report that increased gambling activities, which are promoted as sociologically 'acceptable' and which are made 'accessible' to larger numbers of people will increase the number of pathological gamblers

I would hate to see the state of Wisconsin make another mistake and locate another casino in a high-density population area

In 1993, 40 percent of Minnesota restaurateurs reported declines attributed to casinos

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

Any legislator who says he doesn't see the downside hasn't done his homework

Gambling drains the economy by taking money away from grocery stores and retail businesses and putting it in the hands of an industry that produces no product

We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling

Lotteries boost state revenues in the short run but don't feed the economy in the long run

Actually, they should just roll it all back get rid of gambling...It destabilizes the U.S. economy

Studies in Australia have verified this drain on the economy by video gambling machines

The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime

State-sponsored gambling produces no product, no new wealth, and so it makes no genuine contribution to economic development

For every three machines, you lose two jobs out of the surrounding economy because people are dumping their money on gambling

It is not economic development; it's about taking money out of the consumer economy and shipping it off to Las Vegas

A shrinking economy means lost sales and lost jobs

It becomes a cannibalization of your pre-existing economy

Crime goes up 10 percent due to the gambling by the third year after racinos or slot machines are open, and then it continues upward after that

The faster the gambling activity, the more highly addictive it is; and the more addictive the gambling activity is, the more revenue it will generate for the industry