Not quite in time to save us from Mike Easley’s dream-come-true is this great column by Holman Jenkins in today’s WSJ. Key line: “lotteries don’t add to state revenues in the long run. They just shift the burden from higher-income households to lower-income lottery players.”
I’m not really suggesting, of course, that anything so feeble as mere arguments could have prevented the political chicanery by which we were given “our” lottery.
