I think anyone who plays the lottery at least once per year is perhaps too inclusive. Lots of people in my family will get everyone one scratch off for Christmas. I don't think that's nearly as problematic as the people who sit at gas station lotto machines all day. Surely it's a much smaller percent of the population that spends enough on the lottery to get in the way of emergency funds. You really need to show a distribution of lottery spending for this to be compelling.
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I think anyone who plays the lottery at least once per year is perhaps too inclusive. Lots of people in my family will get everyone one scratch off for Christmas. I don't think that's nearly as problematic as the people who sit at gas station lotto machines all day. Surely it's a much smaller percent of the population that spends enough on the lottery to get in the way of emergency funds. You really need to show a distribution of lottery spending for this to be compelling.
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