John Warren Kindt Quotes
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The real loss by gambling is $180,000 to the consumer economy for each slot machine
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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
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Gambling addicts usually lose their focus at work and problem military gambling poses a national security threat
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Gambling has a zero-sum economic effect in its market and, like legalizing cocaine, the socio-economic costs of legalizing gambling overwhelm the benefits
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If you want your 401k to come back, recriminalize gambling
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The common mistake that business people make is they're going to get drive-by business...Only gas stations are helped
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Another threat to stability is the rise of Internet gambling
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Movies and Disney World don't create addicts
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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.
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The casinos are walking out of states with at least $1 billion in their pockets to Las Vegas
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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
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$60,000 spent in a consumer economy multiplies by respending into $180,000
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It's time to wipe the slate clean, recriminalize gambling, just like we did in this country 100 years ago
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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
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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
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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
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If the government wants to stimulate the economy, it should outlaw gambling
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Bankruptcies will be up 18 to 42 percent around racinos areas tracks as people lose their money
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It becomes a cannibalization of your pre-existing economy
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It is not economic development; it's about taking money out of the consumer economy and shipping it off to Las Vegas
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This is an industry that generates addicted gamblers and they are desperate to get money
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Gambling is being subsidized by the taxpayers
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Your addiction rate will go up if you have gambling in this area
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What we really need is a federal intervention plan, which calls for a moratorium on gambling in the U.S.
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In 1993, 40 percent of Minnesota restaurateurs reported declines attributed to casinos
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Thirty-seven percent of gamblers dip into their savings to fulfill their habit
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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
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A 1999 report by a bipartisan federal panel on gambling concluded the United States should put a hold on further casinos until it is clear what the impact is on America
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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
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The social costs, and the increased tax costs due to addicted gamblers, stay behind
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