If only that was true. Do you really think the person who spends their welfare check on lottery tickets goes hungry? No, they just ask for more welfare so we end up paying for their welfare and their lottery tickets unless they hit. Then it's all for them and none for us.
It is poor people taxes. People that don’t pay them and sponge off the rest of us had to pay somehow. So here’s how it’s done. “You can’t win if you don’t play” is very effective.