Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 GARFIELD 20/11/84; site garfield.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!garfield!lionel From: lionel@garfield.UUCP (Lionel H. Moser) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: Re: lotteries Message-ID: <3284@garfield.UUCP> Date: Sun, 14-Jul-85 19:57:26 EDT Article-I.D.: garfield.3284 Posted: Sun Jul 14 19:57:26 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 14-Jul-85 21:24:04 EDT References: <2225@utcsstat.UUCP> <2043@genat.UUCP> Organization: Memorial U. of Nfld. C.S. Dept., St. John's Lines: 29 > > > Ah yes, but did you take into account the benifits derived from > the Wintario funded Pools, Arenas, etc. which have come about due to the > lottery? > > Mike Stephenson 1) Didn't governments build pools and arenas before Wintario? The Government of Alberta has argued many times that because of the Alberta Heritage fund they could do things like build convention centres, buy wheat cars, fund public transportation, fund public housing, build arts centres... Saskatchewan doesn't have a "Heritage Fund" and they also buy wheat cars. EVERY government in the country provides these services! They have nothing to do with lotteries. If they are paid for from lottery profits then the general revenues formerly allocated to these services is redirected or released. 2) (In response to other postings on the same issue.) "Most" people who buy lottery tickets are neither poor nor stupid. Last time I read the stats, the number of lottery tickets per capita in Canada was equal across income groups. Therefore, we can deduce that poor people spend, on the average, a larger part of their disposable income on lottery tickets. But they don't necessarily buy them more often. Lionel Moser Department of Computer Science Memorial University of Newfoundland UUCP: {ihnp4, utcsri, allegra} !garfield!lionel