Is the Lottery a "Dumb Tax"?

Question: lottery ticket help???

Question Details: i have 3 numbers!! 1 is the bonus ball!does this mean i will get a tenner? not sure if bonus ball counts!!

Deleted Answer: Thank you so much for paying the 'dumb' tax. I rely on people like you to pay for my opera houses, symphony orchestras and all the cultural improvement that the lottery has undertaken. Of course, I have never bought a lottery ticket in my life.

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Is the Lottery a "Dumb Tax"?phantom of the opera

With a one-in-fourteen-million chance of winning and the operators and Government laughing all the way to the bank, it is certainly a tax on the hard-of-thinking, but not dumb people particularly because they are mute!

Sadly the 'good causes' money isn't going on the symphony orchestras, theatres and opera houses, as more and more of it is being pinched by Government to waste on the 2012 Olympics. See how only last week many theatre companies and arts organisations have had their small grants stopped so that billions can be squandered on this extravagant act of vanity for London and the politicians involved!

And does anybody actually want the Olympics? (Apart from Government and those spivs who stand to make a financial killing out of it?)

Is the Lottery a "Dumb Tax"?listen to opera opera theater

The bonus ball ONLY counts if you match 5 numbers with the bonus ball. Try to tell the person who won the treble lotto rollover last Saturday and won over 锟?8M that it was a mugs game.
It's always been an issue as regards to this TAX purpose, i've come to the conclusion that it's an 'inadverdant tax' that's gone through the back door so to speak buddy!......
Yeah, it's a stupidity tax, I thought everyone knew that...
Its not really a tax as you choose to play, therefore choose to pay.

What it is said to have caused is a lack of funds going to charity as in our comsumer capitalist society, people, stupid or otherwise, would spend 锟? a week on tickets, instead of charity. The cash that does come from lottery to charity is not enough.

Fact: Almost everyone can afford a regular donations to charity and should do.

(Sorry bit of a tangent rant = )
Sure is! The dumb are taxing themselves, well done dummies remember you have to be in it to win it LOL
No its not a dumb tax.

You will always get some deluded people convinced they are going to win and spending money on it that they cannot afford but 99.9999 percent of people who play it, know that they are unlikely to ever win the jackpot, but just why not use a couple of quid of expendable income each week on the chance of picking up that couple of million pounds?

Plus 25odd pence of each ticket goes to charity
I wouldn't generalize it to be a tax an all dumb people, just those who are bad at Math! I mean, you could be a really great writer, dentist, psychologist, or politician, all requiring you to have some degree of intelligence in some sort of area. But if one of those areas is not statistics, then, man, are you going to get suckered in!
Craze, you should try playing a game. A dollar and a dream. go for it.
Most gambling can be considered a dumb tax.

Even with things like horses or sports where gamblers like to think they can make a profit by using their brains, most will still lose overall.

For all but a few very lucky or very smart individuals, gambling is a success if the fun has been worth the financial loss.
but you play Texas hold' em and chase straights and flushes with incorrect pot or implied odds at 20 million are correct odds. you need to look at the big board....i am talking about the menu at McDonald's..........on a regular basis you pay more than 2 dollars for a palm sized piece of lettuce and a half dollop of thousand island dressing. look at the big picture seriously, glance up and look at the picture