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.
@rbreich @msbw I’m usually in agreement with Mr Reich, but not on this one. No one is forcing anyone to play these lotteries, and as far as I know, all are required to show the odds. I reject the notion that I or anyone else knows better than lottery players what they should or shouldn’t do.
People will *always* gamble, legally or not. You might as well run a gov’t lottery to put some of that money to public goods instead of into criminal’s pockets
Robert Reich
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