Youngkin: VALottery should be banned

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Anonymous wrote:How do you feel about Gov. youngkin wanting to ban the VA lottery and introduce more gambling limits.

The lottery is a tax on the mathematically illiterate. If they want to keep throwing their money away, they should be allowed to.

It's a tax on the poor.

Exactly. Mathematically literate people who aren't poor love the lottery because to someone with a decent income $2 a week for a Powerball ticket is for all practical purposes so close to $0 as to be interchangeable while buying the ticket increases your odd of winning a life-changing amount of money from 0% to >0%. So effectively you're paying $0 for a nonzero chance of winning.

Oh the irony....

I'm sorry that your finances are in such poor shape that $2 is something you need to worry about or event think about at all. I do hope things get better for you.

[Anonymous]

Please just ban sports betting. It's hurting a lot of families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The lottery funds schools. I'm fine with uneducated morons funding my kids' education. I don't want casinos in my neighborhood.

This

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Anonymous wrote:It is almost like he had 4 years to bring this issue up...

He has been praying on the matter for that long...

[Anonymous]

The lottery basically preys on the poor and uneducated. I think it should be banned.

[Anonymous]

He probably wants to replace it with PE-backed private gambling on your phone.

Follow the money, duh.