With all due respect to Mr. Betteridge, the answer to the question the headline asks is "everyone". Whether it be the pearl-clutching morality police party, or

With all due respect to Mr. Betteridge, the answer to the question the headline asks is "everyone". Whether it be the pearl-clutching morality police party, or the we-gotta-save-people-from-themselves party, they all agree that a firehose of money into the budget is a great idea, follow-on consequences be damned. Slap a "game responsibly" sticker on it, sorted. Oh, it goes to education, does it? No, it doesn't. Now education is financed from gambling proceeds, not a budget line item in the general fund. The money that used go to education is now diverted elsewhere. It used to be, some 30-40 years ago when I used to argue against state lotteries, that the states would just flat-out not used the gambling proceeds for education (it would go to roads, or whatever) after people stopped paying attention after a few years. Well, people started paying attention, so now the gambling money goes to education but what used to fund education goes elsewhere. Example after example over the course of decades, but we keep falling for it.