Gambling Quotes - Page 14

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

  John Warren Kindt

  Running, Long, Economy

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• Besides creating more compulsive gamblers, money spent on lotteries isn't spent on other goods such as clothing or computers, which would trickle through to retailers, manufacturers and other parts of the economy

  John Warren Kindt

  Creating, Computer, Economy

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• It turns out that dopamine is a chemical on double duty in the brain. Along with its role in motor commands, it also serves as the main messenger in the reward systems, guiding a person toward food, drink, mates, and all things useful for survival. Because of its role in the reward system, imbalances in dopamine can trigger gambling, overeating, and drug addiction - behaviors that result from a reward system gone awry.

  David Eagleman

  Addiction, Drug, Brain

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.165, Vintage

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• People will spend a tremendous amount of money in casinos, money they normally would spend on refrigerators or a new car. Local businesses will suffer because they'll lose consumer dollars to casinos.

  John Warren Kindt

  People, Car, Suffering

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• A politician taking campaign money from gamblers in Nevada is like one taking campaign money from the auto people in Michigan. Gambling is our legal business.

  Paul Laxalt

  People, Campaigns, Michigan

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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

  John Warren Kindt

  Vegas, Development, Shipping

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

  John Warren Kindt

  Vegas, Pockets, Casinos

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• This is an industry that generates addicted gamblers and they are desperate to get money

  John Warren Kindt

  Get Money, Desperate, Industry

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• Gambling has a zero-sum economic effect in its market and, like legalizing cocaine, the socio-economic costs of legalizing gambling overwhelm the benefits

  John Warren Kindt

  Zero, Cost, Benefits

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• Every video [slot] gambling machine takes $60,000 out of the consumer economy

  John Warren Kindt

  Video, Machines, Economy

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• When the money is not spent on cars and refrigerators and is instead dropped into a slot machine, it leaves the economy

  John Warren Kindt

  Car, Machines, Economy

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• A shrinking economy means lost sales and lost jobs

  John Warren Kindt

  Jobs, Mean, Shrinking

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• $60,000 spent in a consumer economy multiplies by respending into $180,000

  John Warren Kindt

  Economy, Consumers

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• I admit to spending a fortune on women, booze and gambling... the rest I spend foolishly.

  Chic Murray

  Funny, Drinking, Humor

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• If you run for election with a particular agenda about saving jobs, about strengthening manufacturing and farming jobs, about tackling predatory gambling and making governments accountable, if there's an opportunity to achieve that agenda with either side of politics, particularly if you come from the political centre, then it's an opportunity you should take up.

  Nick Xenophon

  Running, Jobs, Opportunity

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• We are the movies and the movies are us.

  David Ansen

  Movie, Actors

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• Drugs, gambling, and prostitution are the Big Three underground 'moneymakers' in consensual crime. There would be, however, significant boosts to the economy if the stigma attached to the other consensual crimes were eliminated through legalization.

  Peter McWilliams

  Drug, Would Be, Three

  Peter McWilliams (1996). “Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• Any online gamblers here? Well, Congress is looking in shutting that down.There's going to be a massive congressional investigation of online gambling and they're going to shut it down. And when they get done with that, they're going to look into this North Korean thing.

  David Letterman

  Looks, Done, Down And

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• I'll give you a simple formula for straightening out the problems of the United States. First, you tax the churches. You take the tax off of capital gains and the tax off of savings. You decriminalize all and tax them same way as you do alcohol. You decriminalize . You make gambling legal. That will put the budget back on the road to recovery, and you'll have plenty of tax revenue coming in for all of your social programs, and to run the army.

  Frank Zappa

  Running, Recovery, Army

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• Leftist big-government policies have been disastrous for black America just as they were in the countries that most Hispanics emigrated from. But like the gambling addict who keeps gambling the more he loses, those addicted to government entitlements keep increasing the size of the government even as their situation worsens.

  Dennis Prager

  Country, Government, America

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• Gambling: A sure way to get nothing from something.

  Wilson Mizner

  Way

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• Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Foolish, Pursuit

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2007). “The Gambler”, p.18, Modern Library

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• Personally I don't think day traders are speculating, because traditional speculation requires some market knowledge. They are, instead, gambling, which doesn't.

  Arthur Levitt Jr

  Thinking, Traders, Speculation

  "Levitt to investors: get a clue" by Craig Bicknell, www.wired.com. May 4, 1999.

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• Of course, San Diego chooses not to regard the two cities as one. Talk about alter ego: Tijuana was created by the lust of San Diego. Everything that was illegal in San Diego was permitted in Tijuana. When boxing was illegal in San Diego, there were boxing matches in Tijuana; when gambling was illegal, there was always Tijuana.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Cities, Two, Boxing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The real loss by gambling is $180,000 to the consumer economy for each slot machine

  John Warren Kindt

  Real, Loss, Machines

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