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Face it: you or anyone else isn't gonna get poor people to stop playing the lottery any more than corporations are gonna stop getting cozy tax breaks, or getting people who make decent money to campaign for it to be taxed more.

So the question I ask is: what is an acceptable compromise? Without a lottery, how much tax revenue are you going to need to make up the difference? How high can taxes be raised before people and corporations decide to move to the next state over, or even leave the country?

Taxes, lotteries, vices, addictions, weapons, they'll always be a part of our society and we shouldn't delude ourselves into thinking things we don't like can simply be deleted. So, where do you draw the lines, and where do you compromise?