> True, the lottery has prizes while this tax wouldn’t, but your chance of actually winning the jackpot is about 1 in 292.2 million, so for nearly everyone they

> True, the lottery has prizes while this tax wouldn’t, but your chance of actually winning the jackpot is about 1 in 292.2 million, so for nearly everyone they are the same thing. I mean, I also think the lottery fucking sucks shit, but this is a wildly disingenious way of looking at those numbers. There are lots of lotteries, and lots of ways to win - it's not a one-winner-takes-it-all.