30 years of preying on the poor and innumerate to help the rich avoid paying taxes.
The state should provide a lottery game to prevent the return of the numbers rackets, but it should do so in the same manner and attitude as it provides methadone to heroin addicts:
to reduce the harm caused by a destructive addiction and to help the victims learn to manage their problem successfully. Not to encourage people to become addicted so as to fill state coffers.
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2015/04/28/oregon-lottery-celebrates-years/26494681/
"Let's live on the planet as if we intend to stay."
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And it has been a disappointment that the Portland Bicycle Transportation Alliance continues to trumpet video poker funding from the ConnectOregon program as a new source of bike/walk transportation funding and a signature legislative and lobbying achievement.
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