The launch of the national lottery has been criticized by some as turning the government into a gambling-house "banker," and that it effectively "robs the poor to help the poor." But most people think that lotteries have become an international trend and that it is not impossible for illegal activities associated with the lottery to be combated.
公益彩券的上路，雖然有人以政府做莊、民眾公然聚賭、「劫貧濟貧」等論點公開指責政府，但輿論也指出，發行彩券已是國際潮流，只要管理得宜，一些依附彩券進行賭博的不法行為應可避免。