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A comment on Lottery-Like Prizes Coax Savings. What’s the Risk in Expanding Them?.

Re:Lottery-Like Prizes Coax Savings. What’s the Risk in Expa... by analog31 on Friday December 21, 2018 @07:55PM (#18738129)
>>> While the state lotteries in the United States don’t achieve those particular goals, they already do some good. Roughly 40 percent of the lottery income is used to finance education, environmental protection and other causes.

That's dubious, because money is fungible. In my home state, lottery money "for education" was matched by a reduction in money for education from the state's general fund.

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Re:Lottery-Like Prizes Coax Savings. What’s the Risk in Expa... by giarc on Friday December 21, 2018 @10:44PM (#18738789)
That's such a good point, the lottery revenues aren't "increasing", they are "replacing" funding.
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Re:Lottery-Like Prizes Coax Savings. What’s the Risk in Expa... by danieltillett on Friday December 21, 2018 @11:29PM (#18738913)
They are just an alternative taxation but one applied to the dullest and poorest of society.
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