Why is the lottery hurtful towards funding education?
Question by Laura Moore: Why is the lottery hurtful towards funding education?
I read that the lottery was first invented to help fund education without taxing people, but in the long run it’s hurting the funding of education. Why is that?
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Answer by sk8terboy1963
It’s all about the money. Period. As long as people continue to pay for lottery tickets, then your own government will lie like a rug to you about how a large part of the proceeds will go towards education, road work and whatever else they can come up with to keep you happy. Greed and avarice drive business. Not supply and demand. Your government gives you false hope because they know most people will pay for it. I have yet to see any improvements in my own state’s educational system and we have had lotteries for over 30 years. It’s the same story in every state. Just take a look around you.
The lottery was invented because the government was tired of the Mob making all the money with the Feds not being able to do anything about it. Once the lottery was invented, the government could legally fleece the poor and the ignorant just the way the Mob did with their Numbers game.
Some of the money IS going towards education, but that’s what TAXES are supposed to do. The difference is, WHO is paying this tax? Poor people spend a greater percentage of their income on lottery tickets than any other class of people. The lottery is nothing but a tax on the poor and on the ignorant.
The real motive before the lottery was made was actually good. But the people behind this project became obsessed and greedy for money. So the effect was the lottery that supposed to help in funding the education was now a big threat to make it more poorer.
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There are two reasons why the lottery hurts education. The first one is gambling revenues rarely if ever live up to expectations. A new gambling venture usually makes money and a nice share at that. But does that revenue meet expectations, not usually.
Second, in California where I live the lottery profits are dedicated to the schools only. But money from the General Fund that used to go schools was taken away, spent on other things, and school money was replaced with lottery money. So, if a school got $ 100,000 tax dollars per year before the lottery, then it received $ 100,000 after the lottery because of the shuffling of money. This is a common government tactic and it stinks. The schools would be better off if the general funds for state schools were not cut back. If that happened then the lottery money would be a bonus for the schools.
PDQ is right about the lottery being played mainly by poor people. The lottery is a tax on dumb people who play it every time. But it is one of the cheapest forms of fun a person can have too. Where else can you spend $ 1 and maybe win a huge sum of money? THe odds are pathetic but for $ 1 you can dream a little.
PDQ is a moron endlessly blabbing on about the lottery being bad when it has made so many millionaires from people who could never have become income secure otherwise. The lottery helps education in Georgia, other states is the fault of the fools we elect not the lottery in and of itself.