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Originally Posted by rhyds
Authoritarian means having the state take control in areas where quite simply it has no business poking its nose in. Another example is the Green party's manifesto pledge to scrap the national lottery for not being redistributive enough...
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/9884817.print/ |
The National Lottery does indeed need revisiting: private company making 76 million profit running the scheme, only 28% of income to good causes, etc. Richard Branson originally wanted to run the National Lottery as non-profit making, but the contract was given to Camelot instead ..
Here is an interested article on the morality of the National Lottery:
https://philosophynow.org/issues/14/Lottery_or_Lootery