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Originally Posted by garinda
The Lottery isn't a tax,
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Yes it is, it's a tax on stupidity! Who, in their right mind, bets on odds of fourteen million to one?
And as for the grants to schools for changing rooms, education provision is the responsibility of central government and must be paid for from the receipts of general taxation. When the lottery was first proposed John Major's government were at pains to point out that it should not be seen as a substitute for government spending in any area. But under Blair and Brown this is exactly what it has become.