Posted on 12/28/2017 3:09:15 PM PST by blam
The lottery is a tax on people that don’t know math
If you want to play the Lottery, go for it.
The odds are the odds. If you Win it’s the best day of your life, if you don’t Win you got a thrill thinking about “what if” for a few bucks.
If throwing a few bucks at “what if” is a problem, people can drown their sorrows investing in the Mickey D’s Value Menu.
Never appealed to me, never did it. So far, I've broke even :-)
I’d just like out state to get off it’s butt and sell tickets. I’m getting tired of driving to Tenn.
And probably less bad for you than a bag of potato chips, or whatever the alternative purchase might be.
I had always wondered about that myself. I guess they figure that a state or other gov’t. entity would be more responsible for handling what could be a very large sum of money. Well,by now,we can see that is a false assumption. I guess the other thing is that by doing it the way they do that there will always be taxes paid on the payoff. Why they should exact taxes on money that’s already been taxed once or more is beyond me. With a private numbers “racket” any taxes paid would be up to the individual. I guess it’s only a racket if it’s run by individuals. The winnings would most likely be smaller,too.
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