'Instead of expanding gambling, we need to start restricting it.

'My response to that would simply be that gambling at truck stops and bars ought to be cut back to reasonable daylight hours, or at least until midnight,' Kindt said. There are reasons why bars don't stay open 24 hours a day - why should casinos be any different?'Ĭasino operators cite increased competition from video gambling and slot machines at truck stops and bars for their renewed push for the option to stay open the extra two hours. 'Now they want to make it even easier for people to gamble away their life savings. 'There's a reason why there are no clocks in casinos,' Kindt said. But the ability to operate around the clock is an extra opportunity for casinos to take advantage of sleep-deprived, intoxicated or addicted gamblers, said Kindt, a senior editor of the United States International Gambling Report, a six-volume series released between 20, and the author of the 2013 book 'The Gambling Threat to World Public Order and Stability: Internet Gambling,' the third in a series of three books on Internet gambling. Staying open all day and all night year-round just intensifies this problem.'Ĭurrently, casinos in Illinois have to close for at least two hours per day.

'Every slot machine takes at least one job out of the consumer economy because people aren't buying cars, refrigerators and the other necessities of life.

'Slot machines are job killers,' said Kindt, an emeritus professor of business and legal policy at the U. Kindt says it's a bad bet for Illinois taxpayers. 19 meeting is set to consider allowing casinos in Illinois to operate continuously. Casinos in the state of Illinois want to keep their roulette wheels spinning 24 hours a day, but a leading national gambling critic warns that round-the-clock gambling could be disastrous for the Land of Lincoln.

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