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First Lotto Tickets, Then?
It’s no secret that the city is cash-strapped. There’s a $500 million chasm in the city’s budget and rolling back councillor’s wages can only put so much of a dent in that huge financial mountain. The city’s gotten quite creative too, there was the frightening proposal to give up naming rights to Nathan Phillips Square, which thankfully was shot down.
One other creative solution is for the city to start selling lotto tickets. The new City of Toronto act, arguably the single most anticipated piece of legislation in the province, might allow the city to raise oodles of cash by selling scratch and win tickets.
Torontoist debated bringing this up, but there’s the idea of sports betting. Desperate financial straits call for desperate solutions. Just make sure we don’t let any Leaf, Raptor or Jay get involved and there shouldn’t be any problems.
But wait, why stop there! Cash-strapped school kids already have to stand outside pestering angry pedestrians to buy boxes of stale almond chocolates and guides sell us those tasty tasty cookies. Can the city get into the junk food business too? The way we see it everyone wins. The city gets more cash and we get to stuff our faces.