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To the editor:
In the near future, our state will begin sales of lottery tickets because of the overwhelming vote last November by the people of Virginia on behalf of this form of voluntary taxation.
I wish to commend Governor Baliles on his wise selection of a lottery director and members of the Lottery Commission. They are people of the highest character and will assuredly make our lottery among the best operated in the nation.
Yet as pleased as I am that after years of effort Virginians will finally be able to participate in their own lottery, I am troubled by one aspect of the manner in which our state is approaching the use of lottery revenues.
The Governor in his State of the Commonwealth speech proposed that lottery revenues be used to help accelerate certain capital construction costs of our state. In essence, he is proposing that the millions generated by a lottery be put into bricks and mortar.
While I certainly realize the tremendous amount of capital needs facing our state, I must say that the lottery is “The People’s Tax," one they choose willingly to pay themselves.
And, as such, I think at least some of the revenues it generates should go directly into high visibility programs that the average working man and woman who plays the lottery can look at with pride and good feelings.
Let’s use the lottery money for
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