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Lottery-related ballot measure awaits Minnesota voters (www.mprnews.org)
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Did my early voting and its not clear on the ballot that this is something that we've already had since 1988. Vote Yes!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hope it passes! I'm kind of meh on the whole idea of the lottery as a tax on poor people that are bad at math, but given that it exists, I'd rather the money be used for stuff like this.

On a related note, it'd be nice if laws generally had built-in expiration dates like this. Not all laws, but lots of them should probably require people to say "yeah, this is still good and relevant"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I always treat it as a donation. If it ever pays me, that's just a nice bonus.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, if you can afford it and think of like that, that's cool