A West Virginia Lottery for Eliminating the Food Tax

Yes, at one time we had a West Virginia Lottery.
Then we went nuts on “Powerball” with it’s 100’s of millions in winnings.

But the argument goes that a West Virginia Lottery would only generate a winning weekly total of around $30,000 to $50,000. Well, I don’t know about you, but that type of windfall would sure help out a lot of West Virginian’s that I know.

And they say we can’t eliminate the “Powerball” game because of the revenue that it brings in. OK, then with the separate West Virginia Lottery we could designate the profits like Powerball does, towards the goal of eliminating our %5 food tax. As has been proven from past legislative sessions, these so called “representatives” can not come up with a way to do it on their own. So perhaps this idea can lead them to think about ways to help eliminate the regressive food tax.

But getting back to the West Virginia Lottery idea. Wouldn’t 50 grand come in handy to reduce down the payment on your house, or purchase another vehicle, or even help set up a fund so that your kids could go to college on?

Why waste money on unseen riches of $300 million bucks that you or I will never lay our hands on? West Virginia Lottery monies would be dedicated to helping all of this great state and it’s people. Aiding the necessities in life that true West Virginia people need and like the most.