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re: Lotterys are nothing but legalized theft from the poor and ignorant

And what's worse, very little of the huge amounts of money they collect go to better the citizens of the state. Here in Florida the money was earmarked for education, but for every dollar of lottery money that went to education two dollars was taken away from education in the general funding. Turns out after more than 10 years the lottery has actually resulted in less educational spending. You simply can't trust politicians. Everyone assumed the billions of dollars that the lottery would be used to enhance spending on education, instead it was used to free up money for other projects.

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I think we spend lottery money on education here also and many of the school systems are still a shambles. Parents are not held accountable and money keeps being poured in.

Parents who don't have time to help their child learn their letter sounds have more than enough time and money to buy lottery tickets! I'm talking about the easy mark for the lottery system - poor and uneducated people.