Gambling Quotes
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Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly (Gambling Quotes)
In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted (Gambling Quotes)
I used to go to Vegas and play the horses, and then I realised how ridiculous that was. There is no winning in gambling, but there is on the stock market (Gambling Quotes)
Gambling has a zero-sum economic effect in its market and, like legalizing cocaine, the socio-economic costs of legalizing gambling overwhelm the benefits (Gambling Quotes)
Every video [slot] gambling machine takes $60,000 out of the consumer economy (Gambling Quotes)
The real loss by gambling is $180,000 to the consumer economy for each slot machine (Gambling Quotes)
Studies in Australia have verified this drain on the economy by video gambling machines (Gambling Quotes)
Therefore 5,000 new video gambling machines costs the economy 5,000 lost jobs each year (Gambling Quotes)
Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government (Gambling Quotes)
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 (Gambling Quotes)
The socio-economic impact of gambling addiction is comparable to drug and alcohol addiction (Gambling Quotes)
When governments legalize and encourage gambling, they are creating addictions among their citizens (Gambling Quotes)
The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away (Gambling Quotes)
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 (Gambling Quotes)
No reputable economist anywhere believes it’s gambling an economic tool (Gambling Quotes)
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 (Gambling Quotes)
For every three machines, you lose two jobs out of the surrounding economy because people are dumping their money on gambling (Gambling Quotes)
If the government wants to stimulate the economy, it should outlaw gambling (Gambling Quotes)
Gambling drains the economy by taking money away from grocery stores and retail businesses and putting it in the hands of an industry that produces no product (Gambling Quotes)
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 (Gambling Quotes)
The lightning spread of ‘Western-style’ gambling overseas has increased the problems of addicted and problem gamblers, organized crime and alleged corruption in Asia and the Middle East (Gambling Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The faster the gambling activity, the more highly addictive it is; and the more addictive the gambling activity is, the more revenue it will generate for the industry (Gambling Quotes)
Gambling addicts usually lose their focus at work and problem military gambling poses a national security threat (Gambling Quotes)
The military should get rid of video gambling devices on nearly 100 overseas bases and posts (Gambling Quotes)
Crime goes up 10 percent due to the gambling by the third year after racinos or slot machines are open, and then it continues upward after that (Gambling Quotes)
A study in Illinois in the mid-1990s found that 65 percent of businesses were hurt by the proximity of gambling (Gambling Quotes)
What we really need is a federal intervention plan, which calls for a moratorium on gambling in the U.S (Gambling Quotes)
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 Quotes)
In convenience gambling scenarios, discretionary spending and nondiscretionary addicted gambling dollars were transferred from other forms of consumer expenditures (Gambling Quotes)