Really? Really? These charitable events are going to take away from casino operation revenue? The WV Lottery Commission is bloated and full of crap. Just another attempted overreach by a public agency that has nothing better to do with their time. I’m imagining they’re all board members of HOAs too in order to feed their need to police front yards for “illegal overgrowth”.
Do these casino nights involve actual gambling? I’ve been to many casino night fundraisers. There is no money involved. You usually get a set amount of chips to play with for free, and if you “win” you might get a couple extra entries into a door prize raffle for a bluetooth speaker or something. Sometimes there’s also a silent auction. But there isn’t any way to win money or do any real gambling.
Now the Lottery on the other hand ought to be criminal. At least if you’re gambling in a casino you have a fair chance of winning. The Lottery is essentially a highly regressive tax, and you are all but guaranteed to lose. The funds are often marked for education–and the lotteries are aggressively marketed based on this claim–yet many states simply reduce direct education funding by the amount of the lottery contributions, meaning the lottery does not result in any material increase in funding for public education. The Lottery is an “idiot tax”
Really? Really? These charitable events are going to take away from casino operation revenue? The WV Lottery Commission is bloated and full of crap. Just another attempted overreach by a public agency that has nothing better to do with their time. I’m imagining they’re all board members of HOAs too in order to feed their need to police front yards for “illegal overgrowth”.
Do these casino nights involve actual gambling? I’ve been to many casino night fundraisers. There is no money involved. You usually get a set amount of chips to play with for free, and if you “win” you might get a couple extra entries into a door prize raffle for a bluetooth speaker or something. Sometimes there’s also a silent auction. But there isn’t any way to win money or do any real gambling.
Now the Lottery on the other hand ought to be criminal. At least if you’re gambling in a casino you have a fair chance of winning. The Lottery is essentially a highly regressive tax, and you are all but guaranteed to lose. The funds are often marked for education–and the lotteries are aggressively marketed based on this claim–yet many states simply reduce direct education funding by the amount of the lottery contributions, meaning the lottery does not result in any material increase in funding for public education. The Lottery is an “idiot tax”
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