To the folks decrying the lottery and those who buy tickets

[Fumesucker]

11. It's the state selling the lottery

And overwhelmingly it's the poor and middle class buying the tickets.

It takes a special sort of blindness to avoid seeing it's a tax on the poor and middle class.

Saying that buying tickets is objectively not a smart thing to do is not the same thing as saying you are banned from doing it.

Too much gambling is objectively very bad for people just like too much sugar is objectively bad.

You approve of government edicts to cut sugar consumption but think the goverment should at the same time be in the business of running a gambling operation.