When it comes to government programs for redistributing income, nothing is quite as malevolently effective as state lotteries. Every year state lotteries redistribute the income of mostly poor Americans (who spend between 4-9 percent of their income on lottery tickets) to a handful of other citizens—and to the state’s coffers.
This video by Cracked shows what a lottery ad would be like if the government-run business was forced to be honest: “The only reason it stays legal is because the government is the profiteer of your hopeless dreams.”
