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Respond to If we were a more liberal country, we'd give people lottery and cigarette stamps. Poor NYers spend 25% of income on cigarettes zerohedge.com Poorest people in America spend 9% of their $13,000 annual income on lotteries dailymail.co.uk Wait'll they legalize pot. Then we can measure what percent they spend on weed. Heh: D.C. government program to subsidize pot for poor patients washingtontimes.com Looks like illegal drug use is becoming a marker for poverty and lack of education . Funny to hear old liberal dinosaurs like koan, bent, and rat brag about their regular dope use. When they were young, they thought it was something smart, with-it people did. Now its something losers and dropouts do - like buy bunches of lottery tickets. the people turning away from drugs are the most educated and affluent. The poorest and least-educated have continued or increased their drug use. marijuana use peaked in 1978 , and by 1985, 7 out of 10 high school seniors believed marijuana use to be harmful. Young people's use of hallucinogens, like LSD and PCP, or ''angel dust,'' has fallen since 1979. A Different Generationpeople who never graduated from high school were most likely to be using the drug. The better educated the young people were, the survey found, the less they were using marijuana. people 35 and over, who probably developed their attitudes toward marijuana in the late 60's and early 70's - the findings were just the reverse. It was the college-educated who were most likely to be smoking marijuana. by 1985, the situation was just the opposite. Only 3 percent of college graduates said they used cocaine in the last month. But 10 percent of people who never finished high school said they used the drug . Since the survey did not include people without homes, it may have understated drug use among the poorest and least-educated, according to Prof. Harwin Voss of the University of Kentucky, who helped direct the study. nytimes.com Ben Shapiro rely households earning $13,000 per year spend almost $1,170 per year on lottery tickets – 9 percent of total income .many people living in poverty make poor financial decisions. That's UNFAIR! We need to punish people who don't make stupid financial decisions. ]states rely more and more on measures that target those people. Taxes on cigarettes and alcohol disproportionately affect the poor; lotteries target the poor . None of this makes the economy any better. In fact, it impoverishes the poor even more, making them more dependent on government. Those who are spending over a thousand dollars a year on lottery tickets are likely receiving at least that much in government assistancehttp://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/11/28/Average-family-earning-$13K-spends-on-lottery
