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The lottery victimizes the poor
Mar 11, 2003
| 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) |