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To: Born Conservative; JohnHuang2

Call me old-fashioned, but I sometimes ponder the morality of funding schools with state gambling revenues (casinos & lottery).


3 posted on 03/14/2005 3:45:38 AM PST by P.O.E.
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To: P.O.E.
Call me old-fashioned, but I sometimes ponder the morality of funding schools with state gambling revenues (casinos & lottery).

If you are, you are not alone. I view any state-sponsored vice as a great evil.

We have that nonsense in Georgia, and ( aside from the moral components, or the endless series of people I see desperate to "win" at Lotto ) everytime I see a billboard crowing "XXX Million in the Ga. Lottery" I think, "great, that's XXX Million less people have to spend on themselves and their families."

To say nothing of it being a welfare system for political hacks and appointees. Perpetuating itself on greed and misery, with other people's money. For the Chillun... of course!

4 posted on 03/14/2005 3:58:19 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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To: P.O.E.
Call me old-fashioned, but I sometimes ponder the morality of funding schools with state gambling revenues (casinos & lottery).

You must live in Pennsylvania...

11 posted on 03/14/2005 5:01:43 AM PST by Born Conservative ("Mr. Chamberlain loves the working man, he loves to see him work" - Winston Churchill)
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To: P.O.E.
Call me old-fashioned, but I sometimes ponder the morality of funding schools with state gambling revenues (casinos & lottery).

Call me old-fashioned, but I always ponder the morality of funding schools with money that has been taken from it's rightful owners at gunpoint if necessary.

63 posted on 03/14/2005 11:06:02 AM PST by Protagoras (If the Republican Party enacts a new tax they will be out of power for at least a generation)
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Not to worry about that... they only SAID they were going to use the revenues to fund schools, the money really just went into general revenues. I know, I know, it's still immoral, I just couldn't resist the irony.

What's really scary is people are proposing a federal lottery to fund social security.


78 posted on 03/14/2005 12:10:48 PM PST by johnb838 ("You Have Ruled, Now Let Us See You Enforce" Need some wood?)
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