The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away - John Warren Kindt

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If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was more like the 1950s. . and that's the truth. The backdrop was probably Victorian.

John Warren Kindt

The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away

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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

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

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The casinos are walking out of states with at least $1 billion in their pockets to Las Vegas

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

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

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