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Every video [slot] gambling machine takes $60,000 out of the consumer economy
- John Warren Kindt
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This is an industry that generates addicted gamblers and they are desperate to get money
- John Warren Kindt
Collection: Gambling
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The social costs, and the increased tax costs due to addicted gamblers, stay behind
- John Warren Kindt
Collection: Gambling
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If you want your 401k to come back, recriminalize gambling
- John Warren Kindt
Collection: Gambling
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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.
- John Warren Kindt
Collection: Gambling
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Bankruptcies increase 18 percent to 42 percent above the national average
- John Warren Kindt
Collection: Gambling
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27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers
- John Warren Kindt
Collection: Gambling
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One to 2 percent of the population becomes addicted gamblers
- John Warren Kindt
Collection: Gambling
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Gambling is being subsidized by the taxpayers
- John Warren Kindt
Collection: Gambling
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It's lose, lose for the taxpayer
- John Warren Kindt
Collection: Gambling
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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.
- John Warren Kindt
Collection: Gambling
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Gambling is a bad deal for taxpayers
- John Warren Kindt
Collection: Gambling
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In convenience gambling scenarios, discretionary spending and nondiscretionary addicted gambling dollars were transferred from other forms of consumer expenditures
- John Warren Kindt
Collection: Gambling
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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
- John Warren Kindt
Collection: Gambling
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It becomes a cannibalization of your pre-existing economy
- John Warren Kindt
Collection: Gambling
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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
- John Warren Kindt
Collection: Gambling
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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
- John Warren Kindt
Collection: Gambling
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We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling
- John Warren Kindt
Collection: Gambling
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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
- John Warren Kindt
Collection: Gambling
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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
- John Warren Kindt
Collection: Gambling
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Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts
- John Warren Kindt
Collection: Gambling
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Actually, they should just roll it all back get rid of gambling...It destabilizes the U.S. economy
- John Warren Kindt
Collection: Gambling
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What we really need is a federal intervention plan, which calls for a moratorium on gambling in the U.S.
- John Warren Kindt
Collection: Gambling
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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
- John Warren Kindt
Collection: Gambling
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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
- John Warren Kindt
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State-sponsored gambling produces no product, no new wealth, and so it makes no genuine contribution to economic development
- John Warren Kindt
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Movies and Disney World don't create addicts
- John Warren Kindt
Collection: Gambling
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Your addiction rate will go up if you have gambling in this area
- John Warren Kindt
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An Osage tribal study found that between $41 million to $50 million left a 50-mile radius around their own casino
- John Warren Kindt
Collection: Gambling
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...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain.
- Jack London
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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
- John Warren Kindt
Collection: Gambling
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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
- John Warren Kindt
Collection: Gambling
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Drugs, gambling, and prostitution are the Big Three underground 'moneymakers' in consensual crime. There would be, however, significant boosts to the economy if the stigma attached to the other consensual crimes were eliminated through legalization.
- Peter McWilliams
Collection: Gambling
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The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Collection: Gambling