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   Nabuquduriuzhur said, 8 months ago

   Don’t the French call the lottery the idiot tax?
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   margueritem said, 8 months ago

   SNERK!!!
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   Tokyo Tengu said, 8 months ago

   Stupid rich people! That could bankrupt Hollywood! The horror!!! Oh wait… come to think of it…
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   bherbert said, 8 months ago

   If we could tax stupidity, we’d have budget surpluses far into the future.
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   Stan King said, 8 months ago

   Yep, it’s called the lottery and it’s completely constitutional because the stupid people volunteer to pay.
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   naturally_easy said, 8 months ago

   How about having a personal tax increase every time you don’t use a turn signal when legally required to do so.
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   briatollah said, 8 months ago

   The tax on tobacco is a tax that stupid people continue to pay.
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   Havelock_Vetinari said, 8 months ago

   If we taxed the stupid most of Congress would have to start paying double.
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   Sisyphos said, 8 months ago

   ‘Tis true, lottery is oft called the Fools’ Tax; but a simple, straightforward tax on stupidity would be a most deserving variety of “sin tax,” along with the already-existing high taxes on alcohol, tobacco, etc.
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    kdale8338 said, 8 months ago

    @Sisyphos

    The lottery is millions of stupid people making one stupid person look smart.
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    Alexikakos said, 8 months ago

    @Havelock_Vetinari

    No government employee, elected or not, pays any real taxes.
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    1) There is the Government.
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    2) There are the people we allow to control the Government on our behalf and the people they, in turn hire to provide what are commonly called “Government Services” (Armed forces, police, courts, public roads, public schools, etc.).
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    3) The people who control the Government assess the rest of the population taxes on behalf of the Government to pay themselves and the people they hire .
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    4) All monies assessed in point 3 come from what is commonly called the private sector.
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    5) If all government employees or controllers received only the net value of their pay cheques after the “taxes” assesed, the private sector’s taxes would not go down one penny. All that money came from the private sector.
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    jukeofurl said, 8 months ago

    Make marijuana & prostitution legal. Erase the national debt in less than a decade.
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    naturally_easy said, 8 months ago

    @jukeofurl

    Huh?
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    LiveToSurf said, 8 months ago

    We are ALL stupid enough to elect them and then they raise taxes on us while paying very little themselves. Too late rat your policy has already been tested and proved over the last 30 to 40 decades.
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    dukedoug said, 8 months ago

    @naturally_easy

    So long as they are taxed …
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