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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: The Lottery (HBO) (Original Post)
yuiyoshida
Nov 2014
OP
The trend toward using the Lottery as a feel good thing of no practical value began early
Jack Rabbit
Nov 2014
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Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)1. The trend toward using the Lottery as a feel good thing of no practical value began early
As soon as California voters approved the lottery, George Deukmejian, then governor of the state and an dedicated foe of public education and the teachers' union, simply started cutting the state's education budget by the expected amount education would receive from Lotto. At best, it was designed to be a wash for education funding and the actual result was to put education back.
Old Nick
(468 posts)2. THANK YOU for posting this!
I was looking around yesterday morning and last night for a LWTWJO clip.
mountain grammy
(26,622 posts)3. Thanks! Jeez, he's good!
Scuba
(53,475 posts)4. The lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math.