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Chainfire

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3. I haven't bought a lottery ticket in 20 years, and I have won as often as friends that play weekly.

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Sat Jan 23, 2021, 07:00 PM

Jan 2021

I don't like the lottery because I see too many desperate people gambling their last dollar on a losing preposition. I see the lottery as a tax on the ignorant; on people that can't calculate odds. I see it as a scam the state plays on its most vulnerable people. I felt so bad when I saw a woman buying two one dollar scratch-off tickets hoping to win enough money to buy gas to drive to work that when she came up empty, I bought her some gas. I couldn't take her tears...

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I hope that they could not afford to buy the ticket [View all] Chainfire Jan 2021 OP

Seriously that's a nice big one soothsayer Jan 2021 #1

I play Megabucks when the payout gets big.....because it's nice to dream, right? OAITW r.2.0 Jan 2021 #2

I haven't bought a lottery ticket in 20 years, and I have won as often as friends that play weekly. Chainfire Jan 2021 #3

The hope tax. sop Jan 2021 #4

some lucky ba'tard in michigasn hit the prize.... getagrip_already Jan 2021 #5

I call it the STOOPID TAX! Thunderbeast Jan 2021 #6