John Warren Kindt Quotes

Legalized gambling is the leading cause of bankruptcy

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

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

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

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

The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime

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

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

Bankruptcies and addictions increase in areas with casinos

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

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

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

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

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.

One to 2 percent of the population becomes addicted gamblers

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

Bankruptcies increase 18 percent to 42 percent above the national average

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

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

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

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.

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 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

Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts

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

It's lose, lose for the taxpayer

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

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

Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gambling is a catalyst for economic downturn

It becomes a cannibalization of your pre-existing economy

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

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

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

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

Gambling is being subsidized by the taxpayers

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

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

Gambling is a bad deal for taxpayers

Casinos don't bring business except for the gambling boys

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