THE LOTTERY And Big Government’s Gambling Hypocrisy.

And does this money at least go to help schools, as proponents promised? Actually, the support for education is for the most part a total lie. The money is fungible, going toward roads and work projects, and even just back to the state general fund. And for many states, it’s not an insignificant percentage of their revenue. The reality today is that lotteries fund the growth of state budgets with tens of billions of dollars taken from the pockets of poor and working class people who don’t understand math, or who understand it but still throw their money away in pursuit of the gold at the end of the rainbow.