"If you don't play, you can't win!" states the California Lotto propaganda machine, uh, I mean television and radio ads...
When California was pushing to legalize lottery gambling back in the early 80s, they SWORE that the lottery would supply the public schools with so much money we'd NEVER see another school bond issue on the state ballot. I don't think it took ONE voting cycle for THAT to turn out to be a lie...