To: Old Sarge
>> They had $27.20 to their name, but he decided to drive to the Circle K on Trouble Creek Road in New Port Richey and spend $5 on Lotto.
Was it Adam Smith that called lotteries a “tax on stupidity”?
9 posted on
09/25/2010 9:05:59 PM PDT by
QBFimi
(When gunpowder speaks, beasts listen.)
To: QBFimi
I thought that was Orwell?
13 posted on
09/25/2010 9:09:51 PM PDT by
Old Sarge
(Marking Time On The Government's Dime)
To: QBFimi
They had $27.20 to their name, but he decided to drive to the Circle K on Trouble Creek Road in New Port Richey and spend $5 on Lotto.
That alone is the precursor to the events that followed. This doesn't surprise me at all.
23 posted on
09/25/2010 9:33:47 PM PDT by
proud_yank
(Socialism - An Answer In Search Of A Question For Over 100 Years)
To: QBFimi
Was it Adam Smith that called lotteries a “tax on stupidity”?SHHHHH! Lotteries are the government's way of helping to ensure that poor people DO pay their fair share of tax.
26 posted on
09/25/2010 9:41:23 PM PDT by
pnh102
(Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
To: QBFimi
I heard it described as a tax on people that are bad at math.
54 posted on
09/26/2010 12:12:01 AM PDT by
Free Descendant
(Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.)
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