Persuasive Essay: Why The Lottery?

Why the lottery?
Almost every state has a lottery and many of people have bought their share of lottery tickets, but what is it? A lottery ticket is a way of raising money and selling tickets so that random ticket holders with random numbers are chosen and win the prize. The lottery is in almost every state in the United States except Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Mississippi, Utah and Nevada. Wyoming brought the lottery to their state in 2014 (Chandler). With Alabama being one of the few states without a lottery we feel it financially and by the other states around us that do have a lottery. Some people believe that we should have the lottery like our former governor Robert Bentley, others believe that we shouldn’t because of religions reasons or for the reasons of it preying on the poor, I believe that the lottery would be a benefit to the state if it was regulated.
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Lottery money comes from what they call “supper users” (youtube vid). This is the top percent of gamblers or problem gamblers that spend most of their money on the lottery, “they bring in 50% to 80% of the money and are th top 5% to 10% of players” (youtube). The people bringing in this amount of money are spending most of their income on the lottery and that gamble that they will hopefully win. Some people that sped a lot of money on the lottery will say well it’s for Education or Parks so it’s a good thing but the money almost never goes where you think. Governments will say that the lottery is going toward something good like Education or things like that but what will happen is that they will say that the money is going toward good things and it will but they will take away some of the money that they were originally to put that money in another fund (youtube). This means that another fund either the general fund or another type of fund ends up richer and that the Government is tricking you so that you end up thinking its okay to spend the money