The lottery victimizes the poor
Mar 11, 2003
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| Lotteries "are more aggressive than
most other forms of gambling, since individuals in lower
income brackets spend proportionally more money on them
than do persons with higher incomes," according to
the National Policy Council on Gambling. In Georgia,
those who make less than $25,000 a year spend three times
as much on lottery tickets than those who make $75,000 or
more per year. On the national average, lottery gamblers
with household incomes under $10,000 bet nearly three
times as much on the lottery as those with incomes of
more than $50,000. |
| (Southern Baptist
Convention Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission) |
| Economics professor and lottery expert,
Robert Goodman, says that after three to five years, many
people stop playing the lottery because they can no
longer afford it. |
| (The Luck Business
by Robert Goodman) |
| You have a one in 12,912,583 chance of
winning the lottery; you have a one in 705,000 chance of
having quadruplets. |
| (The Heartland
Institute, 1993) |