Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Gambling - "Lottery Losers"
Government working for us with a tax on those who can least afford it?
Just great...
Just great...
William Willimon discusses them at Religion-Online.org:
"Lotteries spend a higher percentage of their sales on advertising than the average corporation. Last year. California spent $35 million advertising its lottery, followed by New York with an advertising budget of $15.7 million. Clotfelter and Cook found that in seven major lottery markets, three-quarters of the advertising time purchased by state government was for selling the state’s lotteries. The government is pushing the consumption of a specific product which is monopolized by the state and whose only public virtue is that it generates some revenue for state government."
