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Most of the people that I know who are heavy lottery players are barely making ends meet.
This just goes to show that people have misplaced priorities.
Well all that goes to show is that the people who you know who are poor are heavy lottery players and that you don't understand logic. It's a stacked sample. That your friends do this doesn't mean that everyone does this.
Why didn't you stop being lazy and just look up some statistics around who plays the lottery. That'd be much better than making up an opinion off of your empirical observations.
What makes it a tax is after all the money is piled into a lump sum governments then take their share out.
It's like all the poor people standing around and gathering up all their money into a pile and then giving all of it to a few or maybe even just one person.
It's a regressive tax and liberals sold it off as a means to pay for education. What it actually does is allow money that used to pay for education to be moved around to something else. It was a rouse when it was first started and it's still one today.
Sure it is. That money is not concentrated all to one person without a tax on it. It has a far higher tax rate than say something you buy at the store and at least you get something when you pay that tax. Hopefully it's something that helps sustain your life and not just some worthless pieces of paper like the N.Y. Times.
The lottery is a tax not so much on the poor, but on those who do not understand mathematics. Following the laws of probability in relation to the amounts being won, a lottery ticket is a bad investment, that is, most of the time. That's precisely why the various lottery commissions make money and the lotteries exist in the first place. However when a lottery pool becomes massive, a purchased ticket might actually be a good investment. It works like this; if a person buys a lottery ticket for $1 and the lottery is a million dollars, and there is less than a million tickets sold, then a $1 ticket is technically a good investment. The math is on the side of the ticket purchaser. It's kind of a ratio thing. I do not know whether this past lottery was a "good investment". But when the pay-out gets really huge, a second factor would be; how much money can a person possibly use?
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