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Legalized gambling is the leading cause of bankruptcy
John Warren Kindt
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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
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The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away
John Warren Kindt
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I would hate to see the state of Wisconsin make another mistake and locate another casino in a high-density population area
John Warren Kindt
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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
John Warren Kindt
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27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers
John Warren Kindt
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The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime
John Warren Kindt
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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
John Warren Kindt
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A study in Illinois in the mid-1990s found that 65 percent of businesses were hurt by the proximity of gambling
John Warren Kindt
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Bankruptcies and addictions increase in areas with casinos
John Warren Kindt
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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
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There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population center
John Warren Kindt
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It's time to wipe the slate clean, recriminalize gambling, just like we did in this country 100 years ago
John Warren Kindt
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If you want your 401k to come back, recriminalize gambling
John Warren Kindt
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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
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One to 2 percent of the population becomes addicted gamblers
John Warren Kindt
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If the government wants to stimulate the economy, it should outlaw gambling
John Warren Kindt
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Bankruptcies increase 18 percent to 42 percent above the national average
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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Gambling addicts usually lose their focus at work and problem military gambling poses a national security threat
John Warren Kindt
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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
John Warren Kindt
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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
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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
John Warren Kindt
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Another threat to stability is the rise of Internet gambling
John Warren Kindt
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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
John Warren Kindt
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Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts
John Warren Kindt
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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
John Warren Kindt
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It's lose, lose for the taxpayer
John Warren Kindt
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When the money is not spent on cars and refrigerators and is instead dropped into a slot machine, it leaves the economy
John Warren Kindt
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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
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Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.
John Warren Kindt
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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
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We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling
John Warren Kindt
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When governments legalize and encourage gambling, they are creating addictions among their citizens
John Warren Kindt
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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
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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
John Warren Kindt
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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
John Warren Kindt
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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
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Gambling is a catalyst for economic downturn
John Warren Kindt
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It becomes a cannibalization of your pre-existing economy
John Warren Kindt
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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
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No reputable economist anywhere believes it's gambling an economic tool
John Warren Kindt
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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
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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
John Warren Kindt
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Gambling is being subsidized by the taxpayers
John Warren Kindt
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The social costs, and the increased tax costs due to addicted gamblers, stay behind
John Warren Kindt
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For every three machines, you lose two jobs out of the surrounding economy because people are dumping their money on gambling
John Warren Kindt
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Gambling is a bad deal for taxpayers
John Warren Kindt
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Casinos don't bring business except for the gambling boys
John Warren Kindt
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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