Socialist Outlook

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Lottery madness

Socialist Outlook no. 2, February 1997 · 208 words

Letters

Why are there millions of pounds tied up in lottery unds, yet people are still dying from cancerous diseases, including young children?

This is a shameful criminal act. perpetrated by a totally uncaring governmens who are still lining their own pockets. Some of the projects into which this cash is injected are VORTOUS This is an indirect tax, taken from ople who can least afford it. brought about for the reasons of a state dangling carrots, making the general populace belleve that they become millionaires overnight, working on the relative blindness of indi. viduals.

Yet again, it is a question of taking money from the poor to give to the rich.

For health managers to make a decision to offer no further treatment to patients while all this money simply floats around is in itself a crime.

Okay, It can be said that their hands were tied, but why should they have been?

I really belleve that it is about time that communications were opened up and spread further across the board al. low this money to be put to better use!

Christopher Smith, Stockport ported the attempt to equalise the age of capital are so intertwined and that in Britain, and the prospect of a Blair

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