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"A lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math, says a joke going round the Internet. It's a huge tax -- people sink $25 billion a year into state lotteries and $330 billion into all forms of legal gambling. The folks who do that are for the most part poorly educated, and they don't have money to waste. Only a fraction of what they lose comes back to them in funds for schools or whatever. A direct tax would hit all income levels more fairly, would channel more to the schools at less expense to the taxpayers, and might even help educate people to understand their chances of winning a lottery."