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The Lottery a voluntary tax? Yes but a regressive one and so bad none the less

Tom Winnifrith
Saturday 19 July 2014

One of George Orwell’s amazing predictions back in 1948 – when he wrote 1984 – is how the plebs would be kept in a state of ignorant servility by pleasures such as the lottery. Malcolm Stacey described it yesterday HERE as a “voluntary tax.” Yes but it is a bad one none the less. 

Malcolm is not a normal lottery player. He is intelligent and middle class with an above average income. Your average lottery player is less intelligent than the mean, working or benefits class and on a below average income. 

Poor and stupid people volunteer to pay this tax.

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