Lottery for NC

Lucky NC will join the rest of its east coast peers with a state run game of chance. A large majority of the populace here believes that the government getting involved with gambling is a good idea. Here' my opinion: I think gambling is great, as long as the state has nothing to do with it.

So what do we have here...basically another form of revenue generation for the state. Here's a craaaazy idea - why not allow private gambling (casinos) in specified areas to be permitted? That way you could tax the living hell out of the earnings (of the gamblers and the casinos) and get the same revenue at the end of the day. Hey, "I got 'n idea'r" why not ear mark all of the casino tax revenue for education, just like the lottery (hah), and there ya go. All of the revenues, without a new government dept of gambling. And guess what, instead of the revenues coming from the poor and the old, the revenues would come from city dwellers with large disposable incomes.

Oh well, I can't say that I am heartbroken that we now have a lottery. God knows after we passed "Amendment One" on the grounds that everyone else is doing it, a lottery couldn't be far behind. The truth of the lottery is that government will grow, and the poor and the old will pay for most of that growth. Nobody has a gun to their head, so cheers to the new NC lottery.