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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, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (1996). “U.S. National security and the strategic economic base: the business-economic impacts of the legalization of gambling activities”
State-sponsored gambling produces no product, no new wealth, and so it makes no genuine contribution to economic development