Leave lottery alone
The News & Record has printed at least 20 derogatory editorials about the Education Lottery. As an ardent reader of your paper, I appeal for you to cease and desist. You lost, and you know it. It’s here to stay, and unless you can make $1 billion in three years, you need to duct-tape your lips. Also, please change the heading of the editorial column from “our opinion” to “my opinion.” The editorial board cannot agree on Mom and Apple Pie, let alone topics of interest to the general public.
Please sign your editorials and be proud of it.
Tom Naylor
Summerfield
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The lotto was sold as money "for the children" and hence named "The North Carolina Education Lottery". Gov. Perdue has diverted lotto funds for the children into the general fund. They need truth in advertising and should rename the lotto The NC Lottery.
Lotto away folks, thanks for paying the voluntary tax. But please, please, know what lotto tix you want when at the cashier. It's annoying waiting behind you when you can't decide what tix you want to buy.
Posted on May 14, 2009 8:48 AM
My guess is that all the lottery tickets out there right now are "losers".
The state needs money in a bad way and just who really makes sure those 1:4.3 odds really get paid out that way?
Posted on May 14, 2009 11:06 AM
Truth, if you are talking about Powerball, the payments are a joint venture between all of the states that participate in Powerball. So if someone in NC wins, they still get paid thanks to every other state that plays.
As for scratch-offs, I have no idea about those.
Posted on May 14, 2009 11:31 AM
You can be an instant loser- just buy a lottery ticket -
Posted on May 14, 2009 2:47 PM
I play from time to time. It's a cheap thrill if you've got an extra dollar at the grocer.
I am upset that funds are being used for other things. When the lottery passed, we should have gotten more than a 'guarantee' that the dollars would only be used for education. We should have had it writ upon the books.
Posted on May 14, 2009 5:40 PM
Besides the idea that the lottery is known as
"a tax for people bad at math".
When lotteries are fixed on education, education loses in the long run. Most states cut other scources of funding, then when people realize they won't be instant millionaires, they slowly stop buying tickets. Then education funds drop because of it.
Posted on May 15, 2009 7:57 PM