A recent study found that poor folks - households earning under $13,000 per year - spend about 9% of all their income on lottery tickets.
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Yup. Voluntary tax on the poor. Lotteries are excellent for that.
ReplyDeletefrom what i've seen, that percentage is quite low, at least in this area.
ReplyDeletetheir money, they should be able to spend it as they wish. just like we should be able to say, stop taking my tax money for welfare for this clod...
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of poor people. How can you collect welfare and also collect money for people advertising on your blog? I think we need to report the fat pig again.
ReplyDeleteHe only has 1 ad, and I think its a prop, phony. No phone # and no response from email.
ReplyDeleteI worked in a grocery store as a teenager and saw foodstamp candidates doing this and it pissed me off. Get an education-losers.
ReplyDeleteThis is useless information
ReplyDeleteof course poor people purchase lottery tickets, they want a way out, its their right to do so
Not their money, it's our tax money that's supposed to help them become self sufficient.
ReplyDeleteAnd no offense,but its "unemployed poor" who spend the most on that grabage.They are not smart enough to realize that the odds are against them and the state would not run a lottery any other way.
ReplyDeleteGo to the check cashing place or any mini mart and you will witness people gambling away their government or pension checks on Keno,scratch offs and that dumb video horse-race game.Check out the lines for tickets and see how many people are spending anywhere from $20-$50 bucks a pop.Its sad but if they are naive enough to believe it will pay off,whos to blame?I give the State of Md enough of my hard earned money.I might spend $5 a month on Powerball.....
9% on lottery tickets, 40% on junk food and the rest wasted!
ReplyDeleteSo I don't get it... are you saying the Lottery is bad for preying on these people (like the linked article seems to say)... or are you making a commentary about these people? The blog post is vague and I'm not sure what you are getting at.
ReplyDeletehow much do they spend on "sin tax" items?
ReplyDeleteI spend my welfare on bling, not lotto tickets.
ReplyDeletewell since the government has taken our money and given it to these folks, this is just their way of getting some of it back. I just wonder if one of them ever hits it. is the government going to make them pay back all the money they took from the system over the years?
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