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 At work. I was in the corner shop buying a lottery ticket when a medical consultant walked in to greet me with "oh David, the lottery, the first tax on stupidity"
"It's been a bad week."
"I know, lottery ticket please."
But yes it is a tax on those least able to pay.
#nhs