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corbinpage on Jan 13, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: How the Powerball rules were tweaked to make the g...

Personally, I see the lottery as an opt-in tax on hope geared towards the poor.

dmerrick on Jan 13, 2016 [–]

I've always thought of it as a tax on people who are bad at math.

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