From the cradle to the grave, Even if I misbehave, There's a place for me On government subsidy.

-Anonymous
Quoted by a caller from Baltimore on Station WAMU, Washington,15  Jun1993.

We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.

-Quine,Willard Van Orman
  Quiddities,'Gambling'.