It serms incredible to me to give over a billion dollars to a random person.

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    1 year ago

    largely used to fund education

    Alas, nope.

    Many states have laws saying that for every lottery dollar that goes to education, a dollar comes out of the education budget. Usually lottery profits end up in a general fund, the whole education thing is a legislated smoke screen.

    The main function of state run lotteries is to take money away from organized criminals and give it to elected criminals instead.