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[Guest makapaka]

2 minutes ago, Borista336 said:

no it isnt its a choice , a bit of fun and if people are stupid enough to risk a lot of money every week then they deserve to be poor, like any  other gambling its a bit of fun if you try and get rich by gambling then you really are not very bright?

I never said it wasn’t a choice.

 

 

Edited July 29, 2019 by makapaka

[Borista336]

6 minutes ago, makapaka said:

I never said it wasn’t a choice.

 

 

But you did say it was a poor persons tax?or words to that effect aimed at people with little money?

[Annie Bynnol]

40 minutes ago, Borista336 said:

But you did say it was a poor persons tax?or words to that effect aimed at people with little money?

Since its inception the National Lottery has been refered to by some as a "poor persons tax".

The reasons is two fold:

You are far more likely to play the lottery if you have a lower disposable income. 

Higher income gamblers can take part in games with far better odds of winning, as a lottery only pays out about 50% of the total stake.

 

They point out that the football pool paid a far bigger percentage.

They point out that newspaper and TV advertising placement timings for the lottery targets lower income groups.

So they conclude that the Lottery takes away  a huge percentage of the stake and often spends it on things a Government would pay for.  This spending was often on items that higher rather than lower earners have access to.

 

However the Government stepped in to create the National Lottery before someone else did so that  "profit" equals "good causes".

 

However some mathematicians view the lottery not at as a way of making  money but as the only way a  coin a week can change a life so dramatically.

[Guest makapaka]

7 hours ago, Borista336 said:

But you did say it was a poor persons tax?or words to that effect aimed at people with little money?

Not the former. The latter.

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Back on topic please