You seem to say that the implementation of a lottery would smoothly go. I disagree: the system has worked in TW but was it implemented in the same conditions?

You seem to say that the implementation of a lottery would smoothly go. I disagree: the system has worked in TW but was it implemented in the same conditions? Do you remember when the US tried to implement the metric system? There were only positive things about it... I can see a lot of folks opting to go to a blooming "grey market" where they get everything at 20% discount (3% markup from OP tax rate) where they wouldn't get receipts, or a second hand economy rise and not enough revenue being generated. In either case, any drastic change is a gamble,but we're so far down the hole that it might be our last option.