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Tomorrow is Small Claims Court Day. Huzzah! (I will make a concerted effort to be not nasty and not hominem-attacking and not emotional during the summary of events for de judge or possibly de arbitrator if they make me do that. I will not be snide.)
In other news, it seems that the lottery, which I have always felt was a tax on the stupid, is also (Coincidentally? I think not.) a tax on the poor. "Twenty percent of Americans are frequent players, spending about $60 billion a year. The spending is starkly regressive. A household with income under $13,000 spends, on average, $645 a year on lottery tickets, about 9 percent of all income." Source
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In other news, it seems that the lottery, which I have always felt was a tax on the stupid, is also (Coincidentally? I think not.) a tax on the poor. "Twenty percent of Americans are frequent players, spending about $60 billion a year. The spending is starkly regressive. A household with income under $13,000 spends, on average, $645 a year on lottery tickets, about 9 percent of all income." Source
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