The chances of winning the lottery is one in 175 million yet 143.7 Million people are said to play the lottery every. single. year. Although many will argue that this is beneficial to raise state revenues for education I can disagree completely. The reason I disagree is because this does not help education AT ALL as it only makes up 5% of student funds, not only that but this is a serious gamble problem that influences bad morals on teenagers, and this is not only a problem that teenagers are gambling but it’s attracting poor people who are already in desperate need. Lotteries are not effective and instead of helping others become “wealthy” it only affects us in a negative way and don’t help us at all.
The reason that the lottery doesn't benefit any of us is because in Source F it states “the lottery contributed $691.2 million to elementary and secondary schools. But that sum was only about 8.4 percent of $7.9 billion public education budget.” which sums up the point about it not helping schools at ALL. With what Source F states we can clearly tell this is not effective as it only makes 8.4% of the public education budget with how many money the lottery makes it seems corrupt rather than effective. In another source (Source B) it informs us that states are losing money because
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Source A informs us that “30-35 percent of students report purchasing lottery tickets themselves.” this makes us wonder who really are the customers and who really is benefiting from this? These teenagers make barely make little to no money and the fact that they’re buying lottery tickets is questionable since it would it most likely continue as they get older and will fall into bad habit. States should stop this because not only because this gives teenagers the false hope of winning lottery tickets but because it’s illegal for them to do