Paying for Education, continued

I apologize for my previous post.  I hit send before I finished it. In fact, my proposals have already been implemented by our representatives in government.  It's called the lottery.  According to one study referenced by John Goodman, "the poorest third of households buy more than half of the tickets sold in any given week."  Continuing, Goodman reports "African-Americans spend five times more on lottery tickets than white people."  This is the state-sponsored way to help pay for public education.  Whatever the intentions of the politicians, this is the result.  Those who can least afford it are the ones who are spending the most on the lottery.  Slick state-financed advertising campaigns push it.  And these advertising campaigns are exempt from federal truth-in-advertising laws.  Moreover, the bulk of the advertising is deliberately "timed to coincide with the receipt of government benefits, payroll, and Social Security payments."  Gambling pimps in Washington and in the various state capitols are preferentially targeting johns who can least afford it, but it's the johns who are getting screwed.