Sorry to all lottery fans. The lottery is designed to generate money for local governments. You can say it is a voluntary tax. The sad part is some major cities now are promoting casinos to generate funds through taxes paid by those casinos. The process that will bring down more individuals into addiction pushing them to crime and losing their jobs and breaking their families. The thing that will reduce the taxes paid and increase state expenses to fight crimes. As you see it is slow spiral down to social hill. It all start by lottery.