What the Lottery Really Is - Economic Update with Richard Wolff

Prof Wolff explains what the lottery really is and how its designed by the government to tax the poor.

"What is the lottery? The answer is: it's a tax. It's a way of getting tax payments out of the poorest people in the state...Lotteries are a crappy way and an unfair way to support state government." - Richard Wolff

This is a clip from S12 E31 of Economic Update: The Deepening Fragility of US Power
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