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MedicalAdmin

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4. More accurately it is a tax on the mathematically challenged.

Reply to Reader Rabbit (Reply #2)

Sat Jan 7, 2012, 12:19 PM

Jan 2012

Having said that I see more poor and middle class buying tickets than the poor and I say that by noticing where the ticket machines are. They ubiquitous in poor and middle class neighborhoods. I have as of yet to see one at any country club or high end restaurant area.

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State lotteries should be on that list. Reader Rabbit Jan 2012 #2

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More accurately it is a tax on the mathematically challenged. MedicalAdmin Jan 2012 #4

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