Jul 03 2008
McCrory Opposes Lottery
McCrory’s campaign responded that he has been consistent on the lottery – preferring repeal but recognizing the budget complications that such an effort would cause. He has called for limiting advertising, such as the times when television ads can be shown.
“Pat McCrory thinks there needs to be changes to the lottery program as it exists, while it’s obvious that ‘Negative Bev’ once again supports a failed status quo,†McCrory campaign manager Richard Hudson said in a news release.
No, the lottery should not be repealed and I frankly don’t know why McCrory is advocating such a position. I do agree with him that the money could be better spent.
Money from the lottery helps pay for a pre-kindergarten program, smaller class sizes, new schools and college scholarships, though it remains a small percentage of state education spending.
My preference would be to stop funding head start programs and eliminate the small class size initiative because there is no imperical evidence that has shown smaller class sizes improve education. I like the idea of college scholarships and frankly I wouldn’t mind seeing that expanded into a system similar to Georgia’s in which students with over a 3.0 GPA can attend any state university for free, paid for by lottery funds.
If you read McCrory’s entire response to another liberal press attack on him he said if I may paraphrase “At this time it would be impossible to eliminate the lottery at this time due to the budget concerns”.
That being said the North Carolina lottery is illegitimate becuase it passed on a corrupted or bought vote. And them Perdue passed the tie breaking vote in the state Senate.
In North Carolina some counties do not get their entire share of the lottery money because their taxes or tax base is not high enough. That is a stupid part of the lottery.
So this current NC lottery needs to be thrown out and a better lottery system voted upon by a legitimate vote. The current lottery is a joke. It has not met the money raising goals that were sert forth either.
So here are 3 reasons in my two comments to why the current lottery needs to be scrapped.