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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (9959)	6/15/2001 7:32:01 PM
From: CVJ	Read Replies (2) of 59480

State-run lotteries are not taxation. They are lotteries. The difference between taxation and lotteries is that if you do not pay taxes, you can go to jail; that will not happen if you do not buy lottery tickets. A slightly different perspective: If you do not have a job or other income or own property (all of which are voluntary, albeit highly desirable), you do not pay taxes just as with not buying lottery tickets. But if you do participate in any of those circumstances, you pay taxes. If you buy a lottery ticket, you pay a tax, because (in CA) 34% of the ticket price is designated for the State financed education system. 50% is returned as "prizes" and 16% goes to expenses. A tax by any other name is still a tax, and it's not voluntary. In general terms, you have income, you pay taxes; you own property, you pay taxes; you spend money, you pay taxes.

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