A study in Illinois in the mid-1990s found that 65 percent of businesses were hurt by the proximity of gamblingCollection: Hurt
The common mistake that business people make is they're going to get drive-by business...Only gas stations are helpedCollection: Mistake
In convenience gambling scenarios, discretionary spending and nondiscretionary addicted gambling dollars were transferred from other forms of consumer expendituresCollection: Gambling
Then they're like addicts; they can't help themselves... They will steal, cheat, embezzle and commit other crimes just to get money to gambleCollection: Gambling
It becomes a cannibalization of your pre-existing economyCollection: 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 gamblingCollection: Gambling
I would hate to see the state of Wisconsin make another mistake and locate another casino in a high-density population areaCollection: Hate
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 gamblersCollection: Gambling
We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gamblingCollection: Gambling
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 thatCollection: Gambling
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 economyCollection: Gambling
Lotteries boost state revenues in the short run but don't feed the economy in the long runCollection: Running
Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addictsCollection: Gambling
Actually, they should just roll it all back get rid of gambling...It destabilizes the U.S. economyCollection: Gambling
What we really need is a federal intervention plan, which calls for a moratorium on gambling in the U.S.Collection: 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 gamblingCollection: Gambling
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 necessitiesCollection: Gambling
There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population centerCollection: Moving
State-sponsored gambling produces no product, no new wealth, and so it makes no genuine contribution to economic developmentCollection: Gambling
And as far as jobs go, for every one job that the casino creates, one is lost in the 35-mile feeder marketCollection: Jobs
It's time to wipe the slate clean, recriminalize gambling, just like we did in this country 100 years agoCollection: Country
Movies and Disney World don't create addictsCollection: Gambling
Your addiction rate will go up if you have gambling in this areaCollection: Gambling
An Osage tribal study found that between $41 million to $50 million left a 50-mile radius around their own casinoCollection: Gambling
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 interestsCollection: Couple
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 knowCollection: Gambling
Casinos don't bring business except for the gambling boysCollection: Boys
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 expendituresCollection: Gambling
No reputable economist anywhere believes it's gambling an economic toolCollection: Believe
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 thoseCollection: Cost Benefit Analysis
The casinos are walking out of states with at least $1 billion in their pockets to Las VegasCollection: Vegas