Lotteries are frequently sold as a way both to raise revenues for state governments and, at
the same time, potentially terminates illegal numbers games. Many states seeing lottery money
as “painless taxation” believe that the lottery is now “the predominant new revenue source for
state government,” according to the National Conference of State Legislators. These states
also make the rather tortured argument that “people are going to gamble anyway, so better for
the state to get the money than organized crime.” This claim is money-grubbing in disguise.
As Nelson Rose, professor of law at Whittier College, notes: “If making money is the goal,
why doesn’t the state own restaurants, or open its own brothel?”
【題組】38. Which of the following is most likely to be the author’s implicit attitude toward lottery
business?
(A) It is legitimate for state governments to determine how to tax businesses, albeit with
certain ethical concerns.
(B) State governments should not rely on lottery business as a revenue source.
(C) Since managing lottery business makes state taxation policy more flexible, state
governments should be allowed to do so.
(D) When it comes to the increment of state revenues, all means are justifiable.
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