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Re:State lotteries transfer wealth out of needy communities,... by phkahler on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @02:47AM (#32066461)
In Michigan they sold it by saying all the lottery money would go to education. But other funding to education was cut by the same amount, so technically the lottery is funding education even though the revenue increase went somewhere else.
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Re:State lotteries transfer wealth out of needy communities,... by claar on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @10:58AM (#32070939)
This is my biggest pet peeve with local tax increases. They always claim the money is going to whatever the public most cares about - education, etc. - but really it's just an overall budget increase, and the amount spent on education doesn't actually increase.
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