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A Michigan man who won $2 million in a state lottery game continues to collect food stamps 11 months after striking it rich.

And there's nothing the state can do about it, at least for now.

1 posted on 05/18/2011 4:11:44 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Huskrrrr

OK, I guess it was posted twice before. Sorry folks.


2 posted on 05/18/2011 4:15:15 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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That’s OK...I’m mad, too. My husband works three jobs and we don’t take any of the welfare we qualify for. This is pathetic.


3 posted on 05/18/2011 4:21:14 PM PDT by Spudx7
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A Michigan man who won $2 million in a state lottery game continues to collect food stamps 11 months after striking it rich.

He complained because he lost half of it to taxes....

All hope is lost.

4 posted on 05/18/2011 4:22:06 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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of course he defends it, its that entitlement mentality


6 posted on 05/18/2011 4:34:34 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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Is this one of holder’s peeps?


11 posted on 05/18/2011 4:56:01 PM PDT by FrankR (A people that values its privileges above its principles will soon lose both.)
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Government sponsored gambling is a disgrace, and evidence of a nation in serious decline.


12 posted on 05/18/2011 4:57:10 PM PDT by Age of Reason
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Government sponsored gambling is a disgrace, and evidence of a nation in serious decline.


13 posted on 05/18/2011 4:57:24 PM PDT by Age of Reason
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How coud he quailfy for food stamps if he has money
at least 1 million after taxes right. Seems like he would be over the poverty line but I am not sure.


14 posted on 05/18/2011 5:01:52 PM PDT by funfan
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I don’t know...The guy just dumped a million into the tax coffers...He’ll never get that back in the food stamps he’s collecting...


15 posted on 05/18/2011 5:08:48 PM PDT by Iscool (I don't understand all that I know...)
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So let’s see: a man buys a STATE lottery ticket with after tax dollars. The STATE grabs 35% or more of the ticket price before putting the rest into the winner’s pool. (For da chilrun, doncha know!) He wins a million, half of which the STATE grabs again. Bernie Madoff couldn’t have done better. (His victims will get back as much as 75% of their principals, i.e. the initial investments, Capt Picard has said.) Good for the man for trying to get back some of the money the STATE robbed him.


27 posted on 05/18/2011 5:51:49 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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There two kinds of people.

Let’s say you’ve found out that your neighbour owes but pays no taxes and gets away with it. What do you do?

The 1st kind: Report him to the IRS.
The 2nd kind: Ask him how he does it!


29 posted on 05/18/2011 6:22:45 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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