Suppose you won the lottery, and then the law was retrospectively changed to confiscate most of your winnings - not all future winners, just you. Wouldn't that amount to cheating? You'd have bought your ticket under one set of rules, only to see them changed after the event.
RT @simonindelicate: I find the moral repugnance argument here interesting, but ultimately absurd. A windfall tax isn't stealing the sweat of a man's brow it…

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