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To: LindyBill who wrote (479759)	3/31/2012 12:36:15 AM
From: average joe	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793755

Yep, you are right on that one. But it really is a tax on people who can't do basic math considering the odds. "A 1999 survey by the Consumer Federation of America and financial services firm Primerica found that 40% of Americans with incomes between $25,000 and $35,000 a year, thought that the lottery would give them their retirement nest egg. What is interesting is that the same study found that number to increase to 50% when the income is $15,000 to $25,000 a year. The study shows that people become more desperate and hopeless as their income decreases."