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From: lionel@garfield.UUCP (Lionel H. Moser)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Re: lotteries
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Date: Sun, 14-Jul-85 19:57:26 EDT
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> > 
> 	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
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