Gambling Quotes - Page 15

• Studies in Australia have verified this drain on the economy by video gambling machines

  John Warren Kindt

  Australia, Video, Machines

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

  John Warren Kindt

  Jobs, Years, Add

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• The socio-economic impact of gambling addiction is comparable to drug and alcohol addiction

  John Warren Kindt

  Impact, Addiction, Alcohol

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• A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Work, Simple

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.17, Vintage

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

  John Warren Kindt

  Cost, 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, Needs

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• No reputable economist anywhere believes it's gambling an economic tool

  John Warren Kindt

  Believe, Tools, Economic

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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

  Justice, Dollars, Cost

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• Casinos don't bring business except for the gambling boys

  John Warren Kindt

  Boys, Casinos

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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

  Dollars, Way, Spectrum

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• Movies and Disney World don't create addicts

  John Warren Kindt

  World, Addict

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

  John Warren Kindt

  Addiction, Rate, Ifs

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

  John Warren Kindt

  Casinos, Study, Miles

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

  John Warren Kindt

  Jobs, Years, Video

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

  John Warren Kindt

  Government, Cost, States

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

  John Warren Kindt

  Done, Homework, Legislators

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• My bottom line is this is no time to be gambling with our economy

  John Warren Kindt

  Lines, Economy, Bottom

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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

  John Warren Kindt

  America, Impact, United States

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

  John Warren Kindt

  Saving, Clothings, Percent

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

  John Warren Kindt

  Saving, Dip, Seven

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

  John Warren Kindt

  Minnesota, Casinos, Decline

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• The gambling industry has a tendency to find public figures ... and these persons are used for their public image. These people generally come in for a couple of years and then they sell out and it's 100 percent owned by out-of-state interests

  John Warren Kindt

  Couple, Years, People

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• Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Movie, Actors, Film

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• Nothing is sacred to a gamester.

  Bernard-Joseph Saurin

  Sacred

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• Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

  Martin Scorsese

  Movie, Film Directing, Cinema

  FaceBook post by Martin Scorsese from Jul 08, 2013

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