[billbears]

Gambling, the stupid tax that eventually harms us all. And a couple of years from now when the lottery doesn't pan out, our taxes will increase. The John Locke Foundation here in NC released a report showing the states that do have lotteries have higher tax rates than those that don't.

[George W. Bush]

The irony of using lottery money for education is that if public education succeeded in teaching reading and math comprehension, no one would ever buy another lottery ticket. The odds are so much against you that you really are just throwing money down the drain.

The existence of state lotteries tends to prove that schools have failed utterly. And that the state government thinks it's fine to promote get-rich-quick schemes to the citizens. They prosecute private confidence schemes so they get more money in public con jobs.

[George W. Bush]

The John Locke Foundation here in NC released a report showing the states that do have lotteries have higher tax rates than those that don't.

Voters stupid enough to tolerate gambling are stupid enough to fall for lots of other stuff.

There's a lot of research available in recent years about the harm done to poor and middle-class families from gambling in states with lotteries, the giant debt loads, the bankruptcies, the foreclosures, all tied to the adoption of lotteries and especially to casinos.