Argumentative Essay: Should The Lottery Be Banned?

Many people believe that lottery is the only way to change one’s whole life to a very much better one quickly without any efforts or hard work. There is no doubt that winning lottery brings the biggest chance for people to be far richer and do whatever they want with an enormous amount of money. However, it can’t be denied that winning lottery is something so hard that not just once in many people’s lives does this luckiest opportunity happen because the probability of winning a certain lottery for each person is merely one in a million. In fact, a lot of people waste a very huge amount of money on lottery every day with the hope of having a better life. There is one statement saying: “The chance of you dying on the way to get your lottery tickets is greater than your chances of winning”. In my opinion, lottery should be banned. The reasons for this are as follows.
Firstly, lottery is considered as a kind of tax on poor people. According to a recent research, people who have better living conditions spend less money on lottery than who are at lower levels. It is easily understood that these people put more hope in lottery to change their current difficult life because they need a lot of money to get rid of their poverty. However, unless someone is lucky enough to win lottery, all of the money will go into private companies owning this kind of gambling, which also means that lottery tickets take money from poor people and give it back to richer ones. In other words, although