no1tovote4
Gold Member
Merlin1047 said:I was advancing the lottery not as a sole source of revenue, but merely as a means of collecting additional revenues supplemental to those produced by the current tax system The lottery, along with the other suggestions I outlined such as increased taxes on trucks and airlines, and the internet/mail order sales tax would improve the government's cash flow. Eventually perhaps income tax rates might be reduced if we can ever get the government to combine increased revenues with reduced spending and reduce the national debt in order to finally balance the budget.
Fair 'nuff. Then we generally agree. Evidently somewhere we have gotten our lines crossed.