21.   Furthermore, lotteries are a poor solution for funding public schools.

22.   Gtech refused to take part in the bidding process, and ultimately the commission decided the least expensive way to run the lottery was to stay with Gtech.

23.   He wonders whether some attorney general in a state where lotteries are not legal might seek to prosecute Minnesota for advertising its state-sanctioned gambling there.

24.   In an effort to avoid becoming a mirage of opportunity for welfare dreamers, the lottery is careful not to promote itself as a get-rich scheme.

25.   In this sense, state lotteries are not all that different from a voluntary tax, except -- crucially -- that people hate taxes but love games of chance.

26.   It is in communities like Orange where the lottery is a dominant force and many poor and modest wage earners are devoted to an endless search for winning numbers.

27.   Lotteries are a lousy bet.

28.   Lotteries are a clean way to get people to do voluntarily what they resent doing through mandatory taxes, which is to pay for education and other public necessities.

29.   Lotteries are regressive taxation at its worst.

30.   Lotteries are not an efficient way to raise public money, the magazine concludes.