Losers only need apply (National Lottery Ticket)

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Product:	National Lottery Ticket
Date:	14/03/01 (29 review reads)
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Advantages: Take from the poor,to give to the rich

Disadvantages: The Millenium Dome

I think in the modern world there are two types of people. One can study or work hard in life or just have a dream and go for it. And they other waits for life to come along whilst buying lottery tickets.

Its reckoned they recycle one in 500 dole cheques through the lottery in Great Britain as this group spends the most of their income on the 13 million to one chance. Through in the fags and beer tax return and you quickly recover the revenue.

I admit when it first came out that I had a little run on it, in the belief that if say number 12 hadn’t come out ten straight weeks then it had to come out this one. Then my brother explained the law of infinite probability, i.e. flipping a coin is always 50/50 regardless of how many times it lands on heads or tails in a row .I decided to abandoned it pretty sharpish.

Officially the government lottery take is 15 percent, but in reality the bulk players quickly spend their dole and over time incomes on it and revenue is boosted up to a nice %20.Couple that with the fact that 5 billion pounds of allocated cash to good causes still hasn’t actually been allocated and lies in government coffers.

The scratch cards to me are the most blatant as they are can be sold to people over 16,who could easily be mistaken by a newsagent for a foreteen year old where as if the limit was 18 then this would not happen so much care off unscrupulous venders.

I know in other countries that they have increased the tax take radically from the National Lotteries as time goes on seeing it as a nice revenue source for government spending. I think Labor take extra now for certain projects that originally would have come from general taxation.

We al know that when it first came out that most of the good causes money was already pre-determined to be spent on garish middle class institutions like the Opera House and The Churchill papers which would and should have come out of the Arts council.

That organization has evolved into The Arts and Heritage committee which of course distributes lottery money .So the original money has gone back into general taxation increasing yet more feeding from the lottery pool.
Yes I know this is boring but I had to get it out of my system as I think Camelot are getting very fat on this on the lesser gullible people in society. For every fiver they spend on the lottery the government keeps a quid indirectly so you can see who this is perhaps really aimed at.

Single mums perhaps think twice about budgeting for essentials when the twice-weekly draws are held as she sees this as the only way out from her current position, which of course is never going to happen.
Fair play to Camelot though as they have run a successful lottery and kept it away from the at publicity seeking tax dodger Branson, although having tenuous links to The Mafia doesn’t really endear them to me much.
To be honest though, Camelot are made up of six of the most blue chip companies in the city mile and would always been subject to an old school tie decision on the new license, regardless of what did go on last year. Blair was “ill informed”off the done thing in awarding the lucrative contract outside of “old money”.,and the situation was quickly corrected.

Ticket sales are falling though, especially scratch cards as the punters now need to buy top up phone cards and petrol with their left overs to get through the day.
To get the waverers back buying tickets, why don’t they just stick National Health slogans all over the ticket or where the moneys going, say The National Opera House who are in trouble again.
I cant imagine sitting by the TV watching closet boy Dale Winton dropping six balls hopping that my 13 million to one combination will miraculously rock up. Apparently you are more likely to die on the spot as Elvis descends on Shergar through your front window.
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idn’t know that the average number of tickets bought by jackpot winners was over nine pounds a week and they are nearly all forklift drivers from up North.
Whats more alarming is that only half of all jackpot winners buy a new house! . And 25 percent stay in their old jobs!, just don’t get it.

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