Re: Crisis in the NHS
If you started funding it with lottery proceeds where would it end ? An education lottery? A transport lottery? Just ends up being another tax, which would be paid by those that can least afford it and like a gamble. The National Lottery is increasingly funding things which should be covered by general taxation. Make it simple and increase income tax/vat, and say what its for, then we don't need to worry about operator profits etc. There already is a national lottery of sorts anyway - called Premium Bonds, nobody in the private sector creaming off profits from that
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