The problem is, people don’t “play to play,” at least in my experience selling the damn things for four years. Probably 90% of the tickets were sold to the same two dozen people, people who would buy forty or fifty bucks at a clip, and if they actually hit on something you know damn well they’d keep trading the tickets in for more until the state had their money for good. I’m not going to begrudge people who spend a couple bucks on a Megabucks ticket every week, but let’s be honest; that’s not who the state’s making their money from.
I’d see people who’d go around to different stores because one store would be “hot!” People who would ask you what number the tickets were, because supposedly they NEVER put big winners at the beginning of the roll (and certainly never at the end!) Every single day, the same people. It’s an addiction and the government should not be in the business of promoting it.
And… people who are on government assistance get unfairly demonized by many social conservatives, but it’s frustrating as hell to sell someone a gallon of milk with their food stamps while they drop $30 on scratch-offs.
