Far more people than Nettles think this was unfair and there were definitely laws broken and skirted. That is why there is a scandal.
> In the aftermath of the 2023 bulk buy, Texas politicians put much of the blame on the couriers. The couriers, for their part, have argued that they’re being scapegoated to deflect attention away from broader issues within the Texas Lottery Commission. In any event, the freewheeling atmosphere in Texas seems to have attracted businesses with questionable pedigrees. Lottery.com, which ended up managing the on-the-ground logistics for the 2023 lottery plan, relocated from California to Texas in 2017.
> Lottery.com seems to have struggled, initially. One potential investor, who visited the Lottery.com’s offices in Austin, told Bloomberg Tax, “I said, this isn’t a corporate office; this is a failed 7-Eleven with three goddamn machines.” In 2022, an investigation found that the company had sold more than half a million tickets to out-of-state players, which is illegal. Three top executives left the company. Two of them, Ryan Dickinson and Matt Clemenson, have since pleaded guilty to separate securities-fraud charges. That same year, the company stopped selling lottery tickets, its license as a lottery retailer in Texas was suspended, and its app was removed from the Apple and Google stores.
Texas law prohibits sales to out-of-state players. Do you really not see how a foriegn backer using a sketchy third party and sketchy techniques to purchase tickets and make profit off Texans who play for fun is clearly unfair?
I mean Texas could pass a law that nobody whose name starts with M can play, but I don’t see how someone with that affliction managing to procure tickets would be unfair.
It is a valid claim, I still fail to see what point you are making? You seem to think that breakkng the rules isn't cheating and that making up a random and unrelated stupid rule somehow makes that point?
That's my best guess and it isn't very flattering so perhaps you should try making your point more directly.
Ok, very direct: just because something is illegal does not mean it is unfair, and you can test this by hypothesizing what else could be made illegal but which would not change the fairness of the process.
It’s true that that concept being hard to process is not very flattering.
> a notorious game requiring a large amount of skill to play, and isn't a tax on the math illiterate.
Nobody but you mentioned skill. Plenty of mathematically literate people play the lottery for fun, knowing the the expected value is a loss. I personally oppose these types of state operated lotteries as regressive forms of taxation, but if they exist, they shouldn't serve the purpose of allowing capital (especially foreign capital) to extract even more money from citizens.
> In the aftermath of the 2023 bulk buy, Texas politicians put much of the blame on the couriers. The couriers, for their part, have argued that they’re being scapegoated to deflect attention away from broader issues within the Texas Lottery Commission. In any event, the freewheeling atmosphere in Texas seems to have attracted businesses with questionable pedigrees. Lottery.com, which ended up managing the on-the-ground logistics for the 2023 lottery plan, relocated from California to Texas in 2017.
> Lottery.com seems to have struggled, initially. One potential investor, who visited the Lottery.com’s offices in Austin, told Bloomberg Tax, “I said, this isn’t a corporate office; this is a failed 7-Eleven with three goddamn machines.” In 2022, an investigation found that the company had sold more than half a million tickets to out-of-state players, which is illegal. Three top executives left the company. Two of them, Ryan Dickinson and Matt Clemenson, have since pleaded guilty to separate securities-fraud charges. That same year, the company stopped selling lottery tickets, its license as a lottery retailer in Texas was suspended, and its app was removed from the Apple and Google stores.
Texas law prohibits sales to out-of-state players. Do you really not see how a foriegn backer using a sketchy third party and sketchy techniques to purchase tickets and make profit off Texans who play for fun is clearly unfair?