How is that caused by the lotto?

I'm neutral on lotteries -- T. Jefferson approved.  Tennessee appears to do OK.  Illinois is suffering from a deadly disease -- terminate progressivism.  When liberals run a city/state/national government for decades, eventually, they run it -- into the ground. 

To reserve the disease may be more than the patients can stand -- results will be terminal.

Do you think Rahm and some others just might be receiving early retirement

funds..?? The commies are big on redistribution you know.

Lotteries are intended to be self supporting, but when progressives see a pot of money they can suck dry, they do. 

The TN lotto is only paying half college tuition now and will be only considered a stipend in the future as alloments decrease.  I'm not sure why the libers love the lotto so much, it's essentially a tax on the poor.

My take... if the lotto is so great, why the money woes?

Crooked politicians with their hands in the till, and give away programs to every POS that comes along. The lotto in itself doesn't cause the problem any more than any other program they're robbing.

Ex-Chicago schools chief pleads guilty in federal corruption scandal

Barbara Byrd-Bennett admitted to steering $23-million in school district no-bid contracts to her former employer, with the expectation she’d get $2.3 million in kickbacks when she eventually retired from Chicago Public Schools’ top job.

October 13, 2015

Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s last hand-picked schools chief plead guilty to wire fraud in federal court Tuesday before apologizing to the children, teachers and families of Chicago. 

 

“I am terribly sorry,” Barbara Byrd-Bennett said after her arraignment at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. “They deserved much more. Much more than I gave to them.” 

 

Byrd-Bennett, 66, admitted to steering $23 million in Chicago Public Schools no-bid contracts to her former employer, a company called SUPES Academy. In return, she expected to get 10 percent of those contracts in the form of a signing bonus when she retired from the district’s top job. 

 

After entering a guilty plea, Byrd-Bennett kissed and hugged her husband and daughter and left the courtroom. 

http://www.wbez.org/news/ex-ch...ption-scandal-113318

Problem being, every state lotto is run by politicians.  Overhead is ridiculously high and the actual benefits are low when compared to the actual revenues.  There are much better ways to sh-ore up a State's financial health.

  I'm not sure why the libers love the lotto so much, it's essentially a tax on the poor

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Never understood that argument. People from all walks of life play the lottery.

A tax is not negotiable.  Playing the lottery is an option, therefore I don't think calling it a "tax on the poor" is a legitimate argument. Perhaps, if you wanted to call it "providing an opportunity for people to waste their precious money on a futile attempt to win some more money, with the chances being about the same as being hit by a meteorite", then I could agree with you.

That's my take too.  If advertised as you put it, then I have no problem with the lotto, however, it's pushed to fix a state's money problems.  I don't care if the poor pay into it as they don't really pay any taxes and playing the lotto is optional.  However, my comment was from the mindframe of a liberal who thinks the poor should get everything for free, which is not how I personally feel.

I never meant poor people exclusively play the lotto, however, they probably spend a larger percentage of their income on lotto than most.

I believe that the lottery isn't responsible but rather the Liberal political policies and politicians in Illinois who have robbed the state and taken from so many and given to those who will gladly take without ever giving anything back in return. 

Illinois isn't the only government that is in financial trouble but one thing is common to most of these communities, cities, counties, states that are in financial trouble and that is that most if not all are led by or have been led by Liberal Democrats and their policies.   No wonder they are always looking for some scapegoat to deflect attention from themselves and their own failures.