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In our opinion: If elected officials were sincere about wanting to help the poor, they would ban lotteries
Whoever might win the Powerball lottery this week, assuming someone draws the right set of numbers, will claim about $1.5 billion before taxes. That’s the equivalent of a year’s worth of work at gross wages of $720,000 per hour. It’s enough, should the winner choose to invest in real estate, to afford to buy all of the residential property in the town of Heber City and have enough left over to buy each and every resident of that city a new car worth $30,000.
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Oh,I agree. I've never played and I have no intention of ever playing.
Lotteries were created to fund government programs. There is/was no other altruistic formula(s) involved. Playing or not is an individual's decision. Whether that decision is good or bad is just that, the individuals.
The only logical extension to this article would be to, ban gambling period, or to ban gambling for those who fall below a preset income guideline.