A Quote by Craig Benson

I do not support gambling in this state.

Craig Benson

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Gambling State Support

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Craig Benson
American - Politician
Born: October 8, 1954

The welfare state corrupts family life. Even Democrats have acknowledged the destructive consequences of the welfare state on the underclass. It has rendered vast numbers of male unnecessary to females, who have looked to the state to support them and their children (and the more children, the more state support) rather than to husbands. In effect, these women took the state as their husband.

Dennis Prager

This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation, I would watch very closely.

Malcolm X

While gambling addiction can be a social justice reason for some to ban gambling, the economic evidence suggests that the social and economic costs of gambling are $3 to the taxpayers for every $1 in benefits

John Warren Kindt

I support the state, but not the state-run economy. The state should intervene only to create the conditions necessary for the private sector to thrive.

Abdoulaye Wade

Christianity has sufficient inner strength to survive and flourish on its own. It does not need state subsidies, nor state privileges, nor state prestige. The more it obtains state support the greater it curtails human freedom.

William O. Douglas

Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government

John Warren Kindt

The only business in the world bigger than gambling is religion...but gambling is not nearly so corrupt.

J.R. Miller

The next best thing to gambling and winning is gambling and losing.

Nick Dandolos

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

John Warren Kindt

I don't see how you have the nerve to oppose this bill when you run the biggest gambling business in the world - gambling on the hereafter.

Loring M. Black, Jr.

The thing about online gambling is that it's never away, it's always accessible. And so, if you have an issue with gambling, it's designed to take advantage of that.

Ben Affleck

I go to Vegas now, and I'm in the casino, and I'm gambling, and there's a guy in a wet bathing suit gambling right next to me.

Sebastian Maniscalco

In convenience gambling scenarios, discretionary spending and nondiscretionary addicted gambling dollars were transferred from other forms of consumer expenditures

John Warren Kindt

State-sponsored gambling produces no product, no new wealth, and so it makes no genuine contribution to economic development

John Warren Kindt

Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws.