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Originally Posted by FlyingScot
I'm with campguy and FLL. They can say all the money goes to education--but what does that really mean? Money is fungible--it easily moves from one pot into the other. So unless they started a whole new program, and showed annually that the program's budget matched the profits, I don't really believe it. It's really just a tax imposed on the people who play it. Leading to FLL's point...best way to play the lottery is to sit it out...
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Only unrestricted funds can move from one pot to another.
Lottery funds are restricted... so they are first dollar to education.
Should the State have to expend less than what is generated through the lottery toward education - then there would be an issue to watch to make sure the lottery revenue matched the education expenditure.
We are not even close... so no real concern.