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yuiyoshida

(41,831 posts) Tue Nov 11, 2014, 12:25 PM Nov 2014

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: The Lottery (HBO)

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: The Lottery (HBO) (Original Post) yuiyoshida Nov 2014 OP

The trend toward using the Lottery as a feel good thing of no practical value began early Jack Rabbit Nov 2014 #1

THANK YOU for posting this! Old Nick Nov 2014 #2

Thanks! Jeez, he's good! mountain grammy Nov 2014 #3

The lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math. Scuba Nov 2014 #4

Jack Rabbit

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1. The trend toward using the Lottery as a feel good thing of no practical value began early

Reply to yuiyoshida (Original post)

Tue Nov 11, 2014, 02:09 PM

Nov 2014

As soon as California voters approved the lottery, George Deukmejian, then governor of the state and an dedicated foe of public education and the teachers' union, simply started cutting the state's education budget by the expected amount education would receive from Lotto. At best, it was designed to be a wash for education funding and the actual result was to put education back.