Huffingtonpost.com -North Carolina lawmakers have drafted legislation that would ban welfare recipients and people in bankruptcy from buying lottery tickets in the state, according to several news reports.
The bill draft would punish vendors for selling lottery tickets to someone who they know is on welfare or in bankruptcy, according to ABC 11 in Raleigh. The lawmakers behind it believe it's counterproductive for the government to accept money from welfare recipients who are struggling to get by.
"We're giving them welfare to help them live, and yet by selling them a ticket, we're taking away their money that is there to provide them the barest of necessities," state House Majority Leader Rep. Paul "Skip" Stam (R), who is helping draft the bill, told ABC 11. Stam added that the lottery "is essentially a scam," the news outlet reported. Stam also said that some of the North Carolina lottery advertising is "just fraudulent,"according to the Raleigh News & Observer.
Some lottery critics claim that the lottery is a tax on the poor, the uneducated, and the elderly, who are more likely to buy lottery tickets. For example, the poorest counties in North Carolina have the highest spending per capita on lottery tickets, according to North Carolina Policy Watch (via Business Insider).
Lottery ticket buyers have almost no chance of winning the jackpot. However, lotterysales around the country have been breaking records.
Ya welfare people wah wah it's too bad, you can't buy lottery tickets anymore I feel sooooo bad for you. Shut up you weren't gonna win anyway. Thats not why I'm blogging this. I've always had a theory that there is no such thing as "winning the lottery". There are really no winners and the government just laughs all the way to the bank. This is basically the government saying I'm right. A House Leader in our government just told me the lottery is a fraudulent scam that you can't win. Like I get that I'm never going to hit the lottery. But I don't wanna hear you say it man. Then again I am a compulsive gambler and I did hear the word's "almost no chance" not no chance. I like my odds. Its official, I'm playing the lottery tomorrow and I'm gonna win.
PS- I am the worst gambler in the world, that is a fact. Never walked out of a casino with ANY money in my pockets. The most I've ever won on a scatch ticket is 50 Bucks. Oh, and over a course of two weeks I lost 13 straight bets (I wish that was a made up number) between football and basketball games. If I won the lotto I'd consider it breaking even I've lost so much. Degenerate gamblers FTW!
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