Created: Sept 12th.
But if I charge you $20 for a one in a million chance of winning 10 million dollars, all of a sudden you can't buy enough tickets! "Oh", you say "I know the chances of winning are low, but what if?"
WHAT IF? What if you got stuck by lightning? What the world stopped spinning? What if you died in a plane crash? Oh, I'm sorry, I better not talk about a plane crash, I better make it a car crash since plane crashes remind everyone about the 'tragic' events of 9/11. I mean thousands of people around the world starve to death every week, but they live in 3rd world countries so they don't really count. Their death could have been prevented by eating pasta instead of a hamburger, but I'm not really in the mood for pasta, so screw them.
Anyhoo, back to my point. The lottery is a method the government uses to siphon money away from people who don't know any better. It's also there to instill the proletariat with "hope" that one day they, too, will be rich (read 1984). It's there because the government is so wise with expendetures that they feel they need more than the pitiful 50% of our income they take.
One reason people burn their money in the lottery (although deep down they know the only reason they do it is for the hope of winning the big jackpot) is that Lottery Ontario gives to charity. BS. All of their money goes to the government, and the government is bound to give SOME money to some organizations that are classified as charities. Most of the money, however, goes toward gun registration (more like their pockets, as if they really spent one billion dollars to register a few guns, and after you shoot someone it's really tough to take the gun with you so the cops can't find it and trace it back to you).
The Lottery is the most capitilist thing I can think of, off hand. One person gets a huge amount of money (more than they can do with) and everyone else gets nothing. The excess money goes to making a few rich men even richer.
But I digress.
The only reason I'm trying to get you to rally against the Lottery is the new subscription service. Before this, you had to physically push down the lever to flush your money down the toilet. Now, Lotto Ontario can push the lever FOR YOU!
Just sign up to their Subscription Service and they'll take your money automatically out of your account in your dreams of scoring "the big one". Here's a reality check: you will NEVER score the big one. You might score a small one, but it won't make up for the money you wasted on Lottery tickets.
At least when you do it by yourself weekly you are killing some time and have the pride of having bought a ticket, etc. I can actually understand that, but if you go and say "yeah, just take $10 away from me every week", it is no longer an exciting experience: it is, in essence, a tax. (By the way, if you spend $10 a week for 40 years, that's over $20000)
If you buy a lottery ticket every once in a while, good for you, something nice to do for a change. If you buy them so often that you just have them take your money automatically, you're a tool.
Oh, by the way, in case you ever do win the lottery (and you won't), guess what? It's taxed.
