A household with income under $13,000 spends, on average, $645 a year on lottery tickets, about 9 percent of all income.
If this statistic is accurate, it’s staggering. It also reinforces what most of us already know: The lottery is a tax on the stupid.
June 13th, 2008 • 1 Comment » • Tags: culture, math •
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