FYI, the lottery is a regressive tax disproportionately paid by the people who can least afford it, and little of the proceeds actually go to community funding.
We should fund community services by taxing the rich, not by conning working people into thinking they'll become rich.
That ‘have to spend our budget this year or our budget will be reduced next year!’ aspect to school funding always seemed a bit crazy and desperate. Of course the spiritual intent was more funding for a larger budget to start from. New Funds.. What happened was the ‘lotteries fund schools’ notion was used to reduce eliminate other taxes that previously existed to fund schools.
Robert Reich
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