Proving SC's Education Lottery a Tax on the Poor

It's high time to acknowledge that, from its beginnings, the SC Education Lottery has been a tax on the poor. Some of us knew that from the start. Now, facts reveal that the high per capita gambling in poor counties doesn't pay off in lottery scholarships.

Golly. Who would've thunk it!

Since fewer students from poor backgrounds even attempt college, the lottery scholarship has become a perk for the middle and upper classes. As politicians know well, once you've given the taxpayers something, it's political suicide to admit it was a bad idea and take it back.

We're stuck with transferring most of the education lottery's proceeds to the middle and upper class. 

Bummer.

Yet here's an opportunity to alleviate this situation. Since benchmarks for earning one of these scholarships needs must be raised, thanks to our ill-advised 60 as passing, let's go further and make this a benefit for true scholars. Raise the grade-point average and the SAT score so that fewer students qualify in the future.

Then spend that saved lottery money on elementary education where it is needed most, such as in the Corridor of Shame!

This solution is just too common sense-ical to ever see the floor of our state legislature!