State Treasurer Steven Grossman plans to ask the Legislature to eliminate restrictions on selling lottery tickets online, weeks after telling a pair of US senators that an effort in Congress to regulate online gambling at the federal level would harm the state economy.
Grossman, who oversees the state lottery, discussed the possibility of selling tickets online during testimony Tuesday before lawmakers who convened a revenue hearing at the State House.
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Scratch tickets are bad enough, now the state wants in on the online gaming business??? How is this the role of goverment? Even if this was a conscionable way to take peoples money, it's a regresive tax that disproportiantly punishes the poor, for what? To pay for local aid to poor towns and cities? Its robing peter to paul, its paying the left hand with the right hand. Its absoultly bad economic policy. The state is already addicted to paying for things with the lottery money, now if lottery revunes decline, the state is now fiscially responisble for increasing gambling rates??? This is crazy and MA needs to get out of the gaming business all together. We need to think deep and hard about what this says about ourselves and how we can get out of this mess of toxic gaming revenues.
This sounds like a terrible idea, fraught with potential for major problems.....
Is this the best we can come up with? Casinos and selling lottery tickets online? I thought we had smart people in Massachusetts.... somewhere.