John Warren Kindt Quotes

Legalized gambling is the leading cause of bankruptcy

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

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

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

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

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

Bankruptcies and addictions increase in areas with casinos

The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime

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

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

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

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

Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts

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

We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling

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

It becomes a cannibalization of your pre-existing economy

One to 2 percent of the population becomes addicted gamblers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Another threat to stability is the rise of Internet gambling

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

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

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

Gambling is a bad deal for taxpayers

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

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.

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

It's lose, lose for the taxpayer

Gambling is being subsidized by the taxpayers

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

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

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

Bankruptcies increase 18 percent to 42 percent above the national average

Casinos don't bring business except for the gambling boys

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

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

Movies and Disney World don't create addicts

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

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

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

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

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

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