In California, the lottery was created to help the schools. The politicians stole every cent of the money and used it for other things.
They did it by reducing the money given to the schools by the state by the amount brought in by the lottery.
It will be stolen in Florida also.
This article says they already got 50 million, then down farther it says the will get 50 million. Which is it?
In my town they got 2 million up front, and gobs of money in the back pockets of the city council members that made the deal in a secret back room meeting.
The casino in my area is at least 6 years behind schedule thanks to the citizens who circled the wagons.
We already have the lottery that was supposed to do the same thing here. As a former teacher, I only saw it used to replace the monies already alloted and those monies went elsewhere.
It was. We ran a very successful lottery head out of the state because the "public" (editorial pages) were so mad at the lottery for the funding shortage for education. Yep, the legislature pulled all the existing funds and spent the money elsewhere since the lottery was doing such a good job of generating money. The "people" got torqued off because the lottery was supposed to supplement educational spending but nobody could find the increase. Therefore it had to be the lottery's fault. The legislature got off scott-free but they did it all.