[buffyt]

I don't mind when a person buys a couple of tickets. I have bought them. Back when we first got a lottery here in Texas we bought a ticket or two. One time I had several numbers right and won $79. So I stopped buying tickets and quit while I was ahead. I just hate it when I see poor looking people, dirty, ragged people, buying a large number of lottery tickets. I think they are the ones who can least afford it, and they are the ones who are buying the most tickets. Friends of ours will buy a ticket or two when the jackpot is high. The rest of the time, they ignore the lottery. I do see it as a tax on the poor. It was sold to us here in Texas as more tax dollars for schools, education. It all goes into the state's general fund. I don't think it would have passed if we had known the money wouldn't all go for education.

[steelwheels]

Friends of ours will buy a ticket or two when the jackpot is high. The rest of the time, they ignore the lottery. I do see it as a tax on the poor.

Talk about stupid, 4 million or 80 million both amounts are life changing. I love to see so called "poor people" pay their share. God Bless Texas