The Governments Gambling Monopoly . . . .

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These billiions are used to pay the salaries and perks of myriad government bureaucrats, including not only $25 million/year for lottery employees, but subsidies for government school bureaucrats, TV-watching/weight-lifting fire station loafers (our "first responders"), police, and many others.
-Thomas DiLorenzo

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