The State Lottery

The John Locke Foundation states:

The idea of creating a state-run lottery in North Carolina has been a perennial issue in state politics for decades. While some say that the issue involves the personal freedom to gamble or the need to keep dollars circulating within the state, the real question is whether state officials should set up a gambling monopoly likely to attract players disproportionately from lower-income households and then impose punitive taxes on them to expand the size and budget of state government. The answer is clearly “no.”