The government doesn't give you a choice and the only way you can avoid the tax on bread is to not buy bread or the flour used to make bread. The lottery tax is regressive. It takes a higher percentage of a poor man's wages than a rich man's. Every scientific study has shown this to be the case and there has not been one published study that contradicts this finding. But that is not all, the lottery is also played more often by poor people and is therefore a highly regressive tax.
Poor people pay the bulk of the lottery tax.
Middle and upper-income classes are the beneficiaries of the state lottery. The program will require all students to apply for federal aid and scholarship programs, so naturally the poor and minorities are funded not by the lottery but by our federal taxes. Many students loose their scholarships after one year. The Georgia lottery has been so widely publicized and is so highly regarded that all the positive publicity may undermine its future. Second, the economy has been growing at a very rapid rate in Georgia, which has pushed up ticket sales.