Robert ReichApr 6, 2024

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.

Show threadLauren WeinsteinApr 6, 2024
@rbreich What is so monumentally hypocritical about state lottery systems -- preying on people who like most don't really understand how bad the odds are -- is how much advertising for these is done in the poorest parts of town where residents can least afford to throw money away. Horrific.
Show threadVon XylofonApr 6, 2024
@lauren @rbreich How state lotteries are legal is beyond me.
Show threadLeeFromVT 🌎🌌🐈♂️♏🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦Apr 8, 2024

@vonxylofon @lauren @rbreich

State Lotteries here use large portions of profits to help pay for primary schools and roads etc. Is that not what most states do with it?

Show threadVon Xylofon
@LeeFromVT @lauren @rbreich Maybe they do, but don't you think it's an absolutely atrocious way of collecting those funds?
Apr 8, 2024 at 11:24amWeb
Show threadLauren WeinsteinApr 8, 2024
@vonxylofon @LeeFromVT @rbreich It's called a regressive "tax" -- tricking people who are least able to afford it into paying for nothing.