{"id":32457,"date":"2015-11-08T14:16:29","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T22:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=32457"},"modified":"2015-11-07T14:25:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T22:25:00","slug":"pro-rawa-kindt-calls-for-us-ban-on-slot-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/pro-rawa-kindt-calls-for-us-ban-on-slot-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-RAWA Kindt Calls for US Ban on Slot Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Professor John Kindt, who testified for RAWA at the recent congressional hearing, believes that gambling harms the economy. (Image: news.illinois.edu)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

John Kindt, Professor of Business and Legal Policy at the University of Illinois and vocal anti-gambling campaigner, has called on the US government to \u201cre-criminalize\u201d electronic gambling machines (EGMs).<\/p>\n

Writing an op-ed for the Southern Illinoisan, Kindt, who recently took the stand to testify for RAWA<\/a> at the recent congressional hearing, claims that the economic benefits of casinos are far outweighed by the social costs.<\/p>\n

\u201cGambling\u2019s lobbyists allege new tax revenues, but academic studies indicate that the costs of the gambling-caused crime, bankruptcies, and other new social costs to the taxpayers are at least $3 for every $1 in new tax revenue,\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn most states, the tax revenues are slowly siphoned away from education and teachers and back to gambling\u2019s insiders, such as the recent New York Lottery scandal where $1.7 billion was allegedly misdirected.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ancient Study<\/b><\/h2>\n

Unusually, for an academic, Kindt<\/a> makes vague reference to \u201cstudies,\u201d without citing sources, as in the quote above, and here: \u201c<\/span>Studies confirm that student populations are particularly vulnerable to EGM gambling addiction and will get hooked at double the adult addiction rates.\u201d<\/p>\n

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While we\u2019re happy to take the good professor\u2019s word for it, we should point out that at the RAWA hearing he was fond of quoting from a study that concluded<\/span> that \u201cinternet gambling cannot be regulated.\u201d This is an ancient study from 1999 and the days of dial-up internet, whose authors were perhaps not best placed to grasp the bigger picture.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In his op-ed Kindt claims that the US National Gambling Impact Study, also published in 1999, labelled slots, or more specifically EGMs, as the \u201ccrack cocaine\u201d of gambling.<\/p>\n

However, this is disingenuous; the study makes no such claim, merely quoting an opinion of psychologist Dr Robert Hunter, who referred to it as such in 1992.\u00a0<\/span> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dubious Statement<\/b><\/h2>\n

Kindt also states that the US National Gambling Impact Study \u201c<\/span>concluded that any states with EGMs convenient to the public needed to re-criminalize those machines.\u201d<\/p>\n

Except it made no such recommendation. It merely advised that Congress should instigate \u201ca<\/span>nalysis of the development of gambling difficulties associated with electronic gambling devices (EGD\u2019s) and the risk factors that accompany this evolution for customers most likely drawn to this form of gambling.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEGMs shrink the consumer economy, denigrate quality of life, increase taxes, and stigmatize governments,\u201d concludes Kindt. \u201cGovernments must change their image, re-criminalize EGMs, and \u2018grow the economy\u2019 to attract new consumer businesses, Otherwise, EGMs and associated gambling proponents will continue to deteriorate local and state economies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kindt\u2019s main assertion, that gambling does not contribute to the economy, remains a hotly debated point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Kindt, Professor of Business and Legal Policy at the University of Illinois and vocal anti-gambling campaigner, has called on the US government to \u201cre-criminalize\u201d electronic gambling machines (EGMs). 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