We already know that politics in South Carolina are just as corrupt as elsewhere in the country - or in the world for that matter. Does anyone recall how the state went after video poker because of its alleged violation of South Carolina’s anti-gambling laws? Remember how the very second the video poker industry was shut down that we started hearing the drumbeat calls for a state lottery? The illiterate dufusses here in South Carolina swallowed the whole thing just about as easily as they swallowed the recent bogus property tax relief.

We were told that the lottery would benefit those seeking higher education in the state. Those that had no means to attend college could get a chance through lottery-funded scholarships. Sounded great and the ignorant masses voted the lottery in. That was then.

This is now. Finally a newspaper has printed what we knew would happen, know is happening, and know will happen: Tuition has soared at an uncontrolled, unjustifiable, and out-of-proportional rate since the Education Lottery began. Now, the only way to get tuition to be about the same as it is in other states is with lottery scholarships. We know that not everyone can get a lottery scholarship, so we thus understand that the net result of the Education Lottery is less education and more money flooding the coffers of the institutional and governmental big-wheels.

Once more, I am left to wonder: Am I the only one who understands that government always makes things worse?

Read the article HERE.
http://www.beaufortgazette.com/local_news/story/6189119p-5410966c.html

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