Lotteries
The lottery is cheap permission to dream about the possibility of a better life. Most players know they won't win.
People without lots of money are more likely to participate in lotteries. On average, households that make less than $12,400 a year spend 5 % of their income on state lotteries, making it a deeply regressive tax.
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