Lotteries and Loose Slots

October 29, 2007

Nanny-staters in Massachusetts are conspiring to put the kibosh on plans to bring casino gambling to the state, according to the Boston Herald.

The Reverend Jack Johnson of the Massachusetts Council of Churches says it’s “morally reprehensible” to raise revenue from those who can least afford it.

The reverend should focus his ire on the State of Massachusetts, among the other 49 - which raise a significant amount of money from the sale of lottery tickets. Lottery tickets, I might add, the odds of which are worse than many casino games, and the bulk of which are bought by the poorest class of society.

Or maybe he should start pointing fingers at the biggest thief of all — the federal government.

Because it is not indexed for inflation, by 2010 [the AMT] will entrap virtually every family making $75,000 and many that earn less…Predictably, the plan rests almost entirely on raising taxes for upper-income taxpayers. Just as predictably, Republicans dismissed it as class warfare.

But for those who don’t like the plan, we have one question: Where’s yours?

So, if the Republicans (among others, I might add) don’t like “class warfare,” our argument is invalid because we’re not proposing another, mildly different class war? Is it now necessary to propose class warfare in order to be taken seriously? In order to object to class warfare? Such is the state of democracy. This is what we want to export to the rest of the world. No wonder they fucking hate us.


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