Cost Quotes - Page 15

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

  John Warren Kindt

  Gambling, Government, States

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

  John Warren Kindt

  Gambling, Social, Taxes

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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

  Cost Benefit Analysis, Impact, Gambling

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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

  Gambling, Justice, Dollars

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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

  Jobs, Loss, Gambling

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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

  Gambling, Would Be, Economic

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

  John Warren Kindt

  Gambling, Development, Benefits

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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

  Gambling, Justice, Addiction

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• Advice is like kissing: it costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do.

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Kissing, Advice

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• Good taste shouldn't have to cost anything extra.

  Millard Drexler

  Taste, Extras, Good Taste

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• It costs to be a friend or to have a friend. There is nothing else in life except motherhood that costs so much. It not only costs time, affection, patience, love, but sometimes a man must even lay down his life for his friends. There is no true friendship without self-abnegation, self-sacrifice.

  Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

  True Friend, Sacrifice, Motherhood

  Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay (1803). “What is Worth While?”, p.27

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• A combed writing will cost both sweat and the rubbing of the brain. And combed I wish it, not frizzled or curled.

  Owen Feltham

  Writing, Sweat, Brain

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• Anyplace market forces have been artificially removed by the government there is a total absence of incentives, competition, effective oversight, cost controls and so on.

  Ann Coulter

  Government, Competition, Incentives

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• If you want to remain a slave to the banks and want them to pay the cost of your own slavery, then let them continue the issue of currency control and regulate the money supply of the nation.

  Josiah Stamp

  Issues, Slavery, Want

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• Do you think you can love too much? Or experience too much beauty, at the cost of too much pain? Do you think when art is defined by expressing so much beauty and so much pain, just to be able to cope with both - and bring other people something creatively beautiful at the cost of that pain - that we can draw a line of 'normalcy'? It's important to think about.

  Paul Dalio

  Beautiful, Art, Pain

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Overall the cost of living in Ho Chi Minh City is cheap and if you can stay away from Western restaurants and use just local products in your everyday life it's really cheap.

  Doug Rice

  Cities, Cost Of Living, Everyday

  Source: www.expatarrivals.com

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• Now you are trying to recover it through Irangate. I know that. But it will cost you a lot. And if you are speaking about the charters again, you have to remember that the Israelis should recognize first the resolutions of the United Nations, according to [one of] which they became a state. Israel is the only state which was created by one of the United Nations resolutions.

  Yasser Arafat

  Israel, Trying, Firsts

  Source: www.nybooks.com

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• For me, if folks who are watching YouTube can pitch in a bit to help cover the cost for creating this work, that's great, but I don't want folks who can't helped to not have access to it. I really like the crowdfunding model in that regard.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Creating, Want, Helping

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• We have to make it easier to be good workers, good parents and good caregivers all at the same time. That's why I've set out a bold vision to make quality, affordable child care available to all Americans and limit the cost to 10 percent of family income.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Parent, Vision

  "Hillary Clinton Delivers Economic Speech". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. August 11, 2016.

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• People can buy the kind of things they consider as normal and take for granted because of globalization and trade and use of supply chains and the reduction of the cost base of the manufacturing of some products.

  Christine Lagarde

  People, Use, Normal

  "Christine Lagarde on slow growth, inequality and fighting cynicism". Interview with Kevin Carmichael, www.macleans.ca. September 12, 2016.

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• Now, grosses are listed in the newspapers and on television like it's a sporting event. It's ridiculous, because when you're watching a movie, unless you're an investor in the movie or a stockholder in the studio, what do you care how much it's grossing or how much it cost or any of that stuff?

  Curtis Hanson

  Events, Television, Care

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was getting keys for my apartment, and I asked if I could get doubles, because I'm forgetful, and the woman there said, "Yeah, but it costs $5." I was like, "Oh, okay." But then she said, "Actually, you know what, I'm just going to give it to you for free. You were in that movie Mrs. Doubtfire, and that movie really helped me out in a time when I needed it. It got me through something, and it made me laugh when I needed to laugh.

  Mara Wilson

  Keys, Giving, Laughing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I did in fact take a couple of classes at my local college here in NYC. But I did it unwillingly and without enthusiasm. That is until a protest broke out in the streets around campus against rising tuition costs.

  Lewis Schiff

  Couple, College, Class

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The need to be thoughtful about experiment design is particularly acute within large companies, since some of the behaviors, such as having small teams and tapping into low-cost resources to maximize flexibility, won't come naturally to many people inside huge companies.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Team, Thoughtful, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Unlike optogenetics, where there are existing nonprofits that give away the DNA for free or at cost, expansion microscopy requires chemicals to be used, so having a company that makes the chemistry kit that anybody can use can save time.

  Edward Boyden

  Dna, Giving, Nonprofits

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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