See the convention agenda . The video lottery machines in South Dakota make a 70 per cent profit, Thompson said. Most successful businesses average a 10 per cent profit, so the video lottery machines are making 60 per cent more profit than a successful business would produce, he said. Gambling is simple. It is like a bath tub.
Water goes in and water goes out.
In gambling, money goes in and money goes out. About 95 per cent of that money comes from South Dakota people. By the end of the year, he predicted there will be only 8 groups. Before the shutdown, Quinn and another researcher sent 600 researchers in one day to interview 600 people who were playing the video poker machines. 78 per cent said they had thought about suicide because of gambling.