Maybe we need to pass a law forbidding people who get goverment assistance from buying lottery tickets? For their own good of course.
We could have a huge federal database, and every time someone wanted to buy a lottery ticket, we could do an instant background check to make sure they weren’t on the dole. Should only cost a few million per year if we go cheap on the redundant support system (and if the system goes down, what’s a few days wait to buy a lottery ticket?)
Of course, that does not do anything to combat the private poker game loophole.
January 25th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
They’re not bad at math, they’re bad at statistics.
January 25th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Isn’t the lottery the most “progressive” tax of them all? If you don’t want to, or can’t, pay it you don’t have to.
January 26th, 2008 at 7:26 am
Maybe we need to pass a law forbidding people who get goverment assistance from buying lottery tickets? For their own good of course.
We could have a huge federal database, and every time someone wanted to buy a lottery ticket, we could do an instant background check to make sure they weren’t on the dole. Should only cost a few million per year if we go cheap on the redundant support system (and if the system goes down, what’s a few days wait to buy a lottery ticket?)
Of course, that does not do anything to combat the private poker game loophole.