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For a Dollar and a Dream
99% Invisible
The Cognitive Dissonance of Lotteries
There's this belief, you know, that a lot of these going to singularly solve state's financial problems. A New Jersey congressman says that we can increase every state service in New Jersey four times over if we make numbers games legal. Belief that will never have to pay taxes ever again because we have a lottery. Even after it doesn't work and the states have to raise taxes, this belief, hey, why are we raising taxes? Didn't we have a Lottery shouldn't that have solved all of our financial problems?
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