State run lotteries: think of them as tax breaks for the intelligent

Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles

I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged.

On the twelfth day I left it, my Unix gave to me: Twelve boards a-blowing; Eleven chips a-smoking; Ten ports a-jamming; Nine floppies frying; Eight gettys dying; Seven blown partitions; Six bad controllers; Five core dumps; Four bad blocks; Three heads crashed; Two faulty tapes; And a burnt-out V.D.T. On the thirteenth day I started adapting my Nintendo for the VME bus.

I spent most of the rest of the day at the booths of Caldera and Red Hat, which had very tiny booths at that show. And basically that was the start of my getting hooked.

I would support eliminating certain tax breaks that are not economically justifiable if they are offset with reductions in tax rates.