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John Warren Kindt Biography

John W. Kindt, MBA, J.D., LL.M., SJD, is a gambling critic and a Professor of Business and Legal Policy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since 1990, Professor Kindt has probably been best known as one of the most well-published academics in issues relating to gambling. He has served as a senior editor, contributing author, and intermittent co-author of the United States International Gambling Report and United States International Gaming Report (also known as U.S. Int’l Gambling Report). Kindt's academic research and publications contributed to the enactment of the 1996 U.S. National Gambling Impact Study Commission, the U.S. Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, and various other Federal and state statutes.

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Gambling is a catalyst for economic downturn

Catalyst, Downturn, Economic, 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

Activities, Gambling, Increase, Numbers, People

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

Boost, Feed, Gambling, Long, Running, State

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

Gambling, People, Population, Hooked, Base

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

Bottom, Economy, Gambling, Lines, Time

What we really need is a federal intervention plan, which calls for a moratorium on gambling in the U. S.

Gambling, Intervention, Moratorium, Needs, Plan, Plans

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

Dollars, Gambling, Know, Legalized, Slow, Way

If the government wants to stimulate the economy, it should outlaw gambling

Gambling, Government, Outlaw, Stimulate, Want

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

Cost, Costs, Development, Gambling, Social, Taxpayers

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

Delinquencies, Dollars, Entertainment, Gambling, Having, Sales

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

Consumer, Cost, Gambling, Money, Revenues, Would Be

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

Dip, Fulfill, Gambling, Saving, Savings

In permitting gambling enterprises to flourish in the United States and abroad, the United States undermines global socio-economic stability in contravention of its international obligations

Gambling, United States, Economic, Undermines, United

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

Gambling, Done, Homework, Legislator, See

It becomes a cannibalization of your pre-existing economy

Becomes, Cannibalization, Economy, Gambling

Gambling addicts usually lose their focus at work and problem military gambling poses a national security threat

Military, Gambling, Focus, Security, Poses, Usually

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

Gambling, Hurt, Illinois, Percent

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

Clothing, Clothings, Gamblers, Gambling, Saving, Savings

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

Cost, Gambling, Increased, Social, Stay

A shrinking economy means lost sales and lost jobs

Economy, Gambling, Jobs, Mean, Shrinking

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