Last week the site was on a bit of a hiatus as I went to Las Vegas. So I’d like to take this item to announce a couple of features this week will reflect that and cover Vegas, but really there is no better place than right here to talk about if states can fix budget holes with gambling.
This is actually something liberals are divided on, with many saying things like a lottery or casinos are regressive tax systems that are like a tax on low income people (a nice way of saying poor people are the only ones foolish enough to buy lottery tickets…mostly because the rich live a lottery every day). As a resident of one of the last states in the country that doesn’t have a lottery or any (non-Indian) casinos, I actually think legalized gambling helps.
Georgia has leap frogged Alabama ever since they passed their education lottery and the subsequent Hope scholarships that allow a child with a B average or higher to attend college in state. Alabama–one of the most desperately under educated states in the country, with less than 1 in 4 adults having a college diploma–could do much worse than follow suit. And given how much Republicans start squalling every time you raise taxes, a lottery and other forms of legalized gambling (Harry Reid tried to pass online poker through the senate) seem to be a compromise solution out of it.
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