Speaking of alternative plans, on this very site I devised an alternative lottery. Back then, you know, I was just trying to placate bugeyed lottery fanatics tearing their hair out over the prospect of having to wait whole months till the lottery became active.
But now, as I think about it, my alternative lottery has some major advantages over the state’s boondoggle. For one, mine won’t result in the reallocation of funds originally slated for education. It also won’t require heavy (and expensive) advertising in neighborhoods of the poor and ignorant who are more likely to think that three-hundred-million-to-one odds are great (and phenomenal if you buy two tickets!). And it won’t require new taxes to pay for either of those items. It’s also less likely to be addictive.
For all those reason and more, let me resubmit my alternative lottery here out of the goodness of my heart and concern for all my fellow North Carolinians.