John Warren Kindt Quotes - Page 2

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

Lotteries boost state revenues in the short run but don't feed the economy in the long run

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

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

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

The common mistake that business people make is they're going to get drive-by business...Only gas stations are helped

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

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

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

Your social costs, your costs to the taxpayers, are $3 for every $1 of benefits, it's not good economic development

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

I would hate to see the state of Wisconsin make another mistake and locate another casino in a high-density population area

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

It is not economic development; it's about taking money out of the consumer economy and shipping it off to Las Vegas

Your addiction rate will go up if you have gambling in this area

An Osage tribal study found that between $41 million to $50 million left a 50-mile radius around their own casino

Bankruptcies and addictions increase in areas with casinos

In 1993, 40 percent of Minnesota restaurateurs reported declines attributed to casinos

Thirty-seven percent of gamblers dip into their savings to fulfill their habit

Gamblers spend 10 percent less on food; 25 percent less on clothing and 35 percent less on savings

Any legislator who says he doesn't see the downside hasn't done his homework

Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government

Therefore 5,000 new video gambling machines costs the economy 5,000 lost jobs each year

For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy