How to Abolish the Lottery
Last week, we built the case—in a series of four posts—why the Arkansas Lottery should be abolished. Now let’s briefly talk about how to amend the Arkansas Constitution to abolish the lottery.
There are two primary ways:
Abolishing the Arkansas Lottery: Part 4
In Parts 1, 2, and 3 of our series on repealing the Arkansas Lottery, we looked at how little lottery revenue is really going to scholarships; how much economic damage the lottery is causing; and how much social dysfunction the lottery is contributing to. Today, we’re going to end our series by looking at one of the most compelling reasons of all: The fact that it puts the State in the gambling business.
Abolishing the Arkansas Lottery: Part 3
In Parts 1 and 2 of our series on abolishing the Arkansas Lottery, we discussed how the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery is not really for scholarships and how economically destructive this state-run lottery really is. Today I want to look at another way the lottery is hurting Arkansas: Social destruction.