[beef]

“Wow.”

Good for them, but now millions of poor people will be induced to fruitlessly blow the milk money on lottery tickets.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Which is why the lottery was set up in the first place.

[Dave W]

Yes, I recall reading a Washington Post story 5 years or so ago and the paper had analyzed lottery purchases by zip code. The poorest zip code had the most purchases and the wealthiest zip code had zero purchases (no business sold any lottery tickets/scratchers in the zip code).

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

There’s nothing wrong with the lottery. Even the colonists bought lottery tickets to fund the Revolution.

[Right Wing Assault]

millions of poor people will be induced to fruitlessly blow the milk money on lottery tickets

It sure wasn't fruitless for these two.

[OldPossum]

Good for them, but now millions of poor people will be induced to fruitlessly blow the milk money on lottery tickets.

Ain't that the truth! You see them all the time, particularly at 7-11 stores, laying out as much as $50 a pop for lottery tickets. I would suggest that high schools offer personal finance courses (maybe they do, but not in my day), but, unfortunately, these kind of people wouldn't pay attention to the lessons, anyway.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

“...but now millions of poor people will be induced to fruitlessly blow the milk money on lottery tickets.”

Hey, beef, it has been happening for years already. And it is not just the ‘poor’ people paying this optional ‘tax’. I do not pay it. It is a tax on the people that is optional. And govt will confiscate the milk money with or without the lotteries.

Lotteries are a ‘tax’. So, don’t pay the damn tax.