We recently talked about paradoxes with insurance and the lottery, but I'm not ready to give up on this topic just yet! I present to you this article which uses IRS data to try to answer: "What is the relationship between gambling and income?".
Most of those comments I've seen on this blog and others seem to imply that the lottery (and most other forms of gambling...) is a game only for the poor - even sometimes referred to as a 'poor tax'. Lucky for the naysayers, the IRS has compiled data which shows that Americans in all income classes (even the 1%!) love to gamble. Yes, in 2009, 284 of the taxable returns with over $10,000,000 in adjusted income had gambling winnings reported! So, dear readers, let's take a look at gambling in the United States...