To: RightWhale
I don't think of gambling as voluntary support as much as an inverse tax on mathematical knowledge.
In economics, we lovingly called lotteries the 'stupidity tax.'
5 posted on
07/05/2004 10:06:37 AM PDT by
Petronski
(A Rinso white!)
To: Petronski
Detractors refer to sin tax. Don't the Lottery investors think the school kids ought to have books as they buy their ticket? Of course they do. It's for the kids.
8 posted on
07/05/2004 10:10:58 AM PDT by
RightWhale
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