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Lotteries are designed under simple primus. Scratch off the card ,pick a few numbers, and if you are lucky, the check part. Just buy more tickets and spend more money and you can recapture that initial throw of the bouncing ball. It’s so easy that most people don’t realize that the numbers don’t always add up. They even state governors can find themselves tempted.

It takes revenue. And I’m not talking about pocket change we found under the seats of couches. Trust me, I’ve been there, I’ve got all there.

In 2001, in his first chairman office, North Carolina governor Mike Easley pitched the lottery as a quick fix for its cashed aftpublic schools.

And if you really wanna hear, for anyone in the whole *rule has a Ferrari or another way to find four or five hundred million dollars for education, then I'm open to it, show me the money.

At that time, North Carolina was one of the last states in the Bible Delt without a lottery. And governor Easley made it the centerpiece of his administration to the plane where became a running joke in his second state of the state address in 2005

So where do we get those resources? Is that something, some source of revenue that we are overlooking? Something that 42 other states have and we don’t have?

For 30 years, US politicians have used lotteries to pay for public programs like education to avoid increasing taxes. Governor Easley didn’t wanna be the exception.

Since I delivered the first day of the state address, hundreds of millions of dollars have gone in education to South Carolina , Georgia, Virginia and Tennessee. Our people are playing the lottery, we just need to decide which schools we wanna fund. Other states, or ours, add for fundingour schools.

But there was a massive political resistance from conservative lawmakers opposed to state gambling. My personal feeling was that it was just not the sort of thing that North Carolina ought to be doing. State senator, Phil Berger led the republican opposition against the lottery bill. The thought that the government was promoting a way that people could be quite successful by not working hard, by not taking care of themselves, by not being frugal , seems /to meto be all wrong massages for the government to be sending.

For more than a decade, a unique coalition of religious conservatives and progressive activists defeated numerous attempts to bring a lottery to the tall hill state. But in August 2005, after intense political ranlling, the governor got his wish by the margin of a single vote. The North Carolina education lottery was created. But governor easily would find that the lottery was not the simple answer he was looking for. And a unique examination of documents from state lotteries across the country, the New York Times has just covered that lotteries are not a windfall for schools, while lotteries do contribute millions to public programs. State lotteries have largely failed to heal the huge financial returns and initially promised for these programs. On average, states' recoup only about 30 cents out of every dollar spent on lottery tickets, the rest, goes to overhead and prizes. Still, North Carolina had high hopes for its new education lottery

Anyone of most of us felt that the lottery would bring in 400 million plus dollars a year that could be elecated among various educational programs.