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From: razzell@cs.ubc.ca (Dan Razzell)
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Subject: Re: Lotteries was: warning: scumbags using usenet for pyramid schemes
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Date: 1 Dec 89 22:53:30 GMT
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In article <1989Nov30.182532.2819@eci386.uucp>, jmm@eci386.uucp (John Macdonald) writes:
> I tend to refer to lotteries either as "voluntary taxation" or
> "stupidity tax" depending on my mood (and whether I've contributed
> any money to one in the preceding year or not... :-).

I think of it as a tax on hope. Not a very nice thought.
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      .^.^.      Dan Razzell <razzell@vision.cs.ubc.ca>
     . o o .     Laboratory for Computational Vision
     . >v< .     University of British Columbia
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