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Journal GMontag's Journal: My Home State Going Down the Tubes of Socialism 10

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The great State of Tennessee, the greenest State in the Land of the Free, has begun it's Lottery. One of the last States to do so.

Maybe next we will have State run Liquor stores, grocery stores, ammunition stores, gas stations, car dealerships, etc.

Horrible, it is just too horrible to dwell on.

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  • A tax for people who're bad at math.
  • ... lottery is:
    a) optional
    b) not progressive

    so there's no 'soak the rich' factor involved. In fact, as it applies in the UK, lottery proceeds benefit the company contracted to run it and the arts, paid for by working-class gamblers who did not know better.
    • Ahem . . . the complaint is that the government is not supposed to be "in business". A further complaint is that it compounds the hypocracy as they contimue to bust "bookies" while the State runs a gambling monopoly.
      • Ah, yes. Clear guidelines on how to run lotteries would probably have been preferable. I have yet to see non-government-sanctioned lotteries that contribute to charities or art, though.
        • Humm, where to start with that one.

          One of the stated objectives if the US federal and many State governments is to promote the arts. Taking the leap that an industry should be taken over by the government in order to promote the arts is going way too far. They will be contributing to "the arts" through the taxes they pay anyway, if they were "allowed" to operate privately.

          It certainly is not the business of government to prop up charities.
    • GMontag has such a broad view of "Socialism" that it practically loses all meaning - basically any government program that he dislikes earns the label "socialist." It has a strong perjorative meaning for him, and so he throws it around a lot.

      Just because the government controls a business doesn't make the government "socialist." Nazi Germany, for example, had strict control of its corporations, but to label them as "Socialist" borders on lunacy. Strictly controlling industries for control's sake and cotrol

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