Taxes, what a pain! This seems like a textbook example of "champagne problems," don't you think? It's like griping about the brightness of the sun on a tropical paradise. You're doing better than most people if you can complain about lottery taxes.
Lotteries are illegal in my country, but the practice of retail lotteries still occurs covertly in areas other than mine without worrying about winning taxes. Well, this is the only advantage if you buy lottery tickets in a country where lottery is prohibited.
And the unique thing is, lottery players in remote areas don't understand anything about probability, this game is still favored by only the elderly. Due to legality restrictions it makes buying tickets less frequent and small amounts to not attract attention. They only buy when they believe they have got a "clue" of the mystical will be lucky that day.
I've heard of buying lotteries based on mystical "clues," and someone managed to win so much money through these mystical "clues" that people followed them.
But sadly, they no longer get that mystical "hint" because it only comes once. Buying retail lotteries is a solution for people who don't want to pay taxes because it's just about them and the dealer so the tax paid is just the tax to the dealer.
And those who buy those retail lotteries don't think about probabilities or anything else, and just buy lottery tickets and then process them with their skills and then buy them. I also don't know how they have so many numbers because they never tell anyone how to do it.