State Lottery Broken Promises

The State Lottery puts a trail of broken promises when the government or others overpower them. "States almost always enter the lottery business by promising a lot of easy money for worthy things, such as public education. But once the politicians get hold of all that easy money, they start moving funds around, and education still ends up hurting"(Evensen). The promises are usually elusive, millions of promises have been made to people only to tie them to buy more and more tickets of the lottery. All these promises lead up to making the poor more miserable than ever. According to statistics Its more appealing to poorer and more uneducated people to buy lottery because they are always in the hopes that dramatic change in their lives. To make …show more content…
They think the lottery is taking care of education"(Evensen). Education is in need of money, and nothing is going to change with the broken promises of lottery. Even when lotteries send billions of dollars to educate, public schools are still starving because the amount of money they receive is insignificant. I do believe that it is people's civic duty to find a way to fund education from sources that are more accountable and directly. Not sources like the lottery that would put hopes up and at the end of the day they give so little or nothing. The article about Gambling Disaster emphasizes " The most lottery money goes to pay for supporting the games themselves, including prize money and commissions to vendors. States were increasing prize amounts to make their games more competitive, further shrinking the percentage of each dollar going to education and other programs ("gambling disaster"). The promises that are made by the state lottery are always broken because half the money does go into their own pockets, and so it is very difficult and challenging to help schools with a small amount of