It's true, but we do have addiction and it'd be worse if we had it at home rather than in Texas. I have neighbors that have good jobs. They make weekly treks to Texas for lottery tickets and they can't pay their bills. Let's keep Oklahoma clean, we don't need the lottery. I've been in lottery states and casino states, and they're much worse than here.
Welfare checks go for gambling as well as social security.
It all should be stopped. If only 8 percent of the state's workers are unionized anyway, if it's not union-breaking anyway, then why would big business even care. What bothers me much more is that the legislature has denied us the right to vote on whether we want a state lottery or not, citing that they don't think we are intelligent enough to handle our own money, in our own way, in our own time. Now, people who are very low income seem to manage, and that seems testimony enough that they have management skills. People who are going to gamble are going to gamble one way or another wherever they can, and since they are, we might as well benefit from it by keeping it in the state.