Boycott Lottery Games

Boycott Lottery Games

Lottery games are just expensive gambling games targeted at poor consumers. They make a tiny fractional percentage of the players rich, they let a small percentage win a little bit of money back, and everyone one else loses money. The real winners in the lottery games are the gaming companies that provide the ticket generating computers to retailers (5%), the printing companies that print the scratch-off game cards (1%), state budgets (28%), retailers (5%), and the IRS (25%).

Personally, I have never played the lottery and I never will. I know statistically I have a much better chance of getting struck my lightning than winning the big lottery jackpot. I consider the lottery a volunteer tax paid by people who like playing a gambling game, and I already pay enough taxes and have other free games to play.

When George W. Bush was governor of Texas he sold the people of Texas on the idea of having a lottery in Texas. He said the money would be used for education. Instead, the money went into the general fund and the general fund's budget surpluses were then given away to wealthy property owners through two big tax cuts signed into law by Bush. Don't be a sucker to corrupt politician's dirty tricks designed to make their rich friends richer and you poorer. Don't play any lottery games.