"My favorite kind a ball"
Posted on 05/30/2006 9:35:32 AM PDT by murdoog
North Carolina's lottery ticket buyers have a bigger prize to aim that, starting today -- a $38 million jackpot.
The Tar Heel State began selling tickets this morning for the Powerball lottery drawing, which takes place every Wednesday and Saturday night and involves lotteries from 29 states, including South Carolina.
The Powerball jackpot grows if nobody has a winning ticket.
North Carolina began selling scratch-off lottery tickets in March, but today was the first day for Powerball ticket sales.
(Excerpt) Read more at charlotte.com ...
Lotto, a tax on the stupid and totally voluntary.............
Sure isn't going to do our lottery ( South Carolina ) any good, as now NC players can buy them near home.
How fortunate for the illiterates that throw money at this crapshoot!
My two favorite lottery sayings are:
The lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math.
and
All you need is a dollar, a dream an a miracle.
So to drive the economy we should be smoking 3 packs a day @ Foxwood?
I really do believe that gambling is the most pervasive social 'opiat', in both the public and private sector, and needs to be delt with.
"My favorite kind a ball"
My retirement plan? POWERBALL!...........
"Lotto, a tax on the stupid and totally voluntary............."
Actually I really think besides this, it's gambling for people who have lost their will to live. Just wait until the "jackpot" grows to six figures.........a dollar, a dream and the monthly welfare check.
last week I was only 6 numbers away from winning the powerball jackpot :-)
Lotto, a tax on the stupid and totally voluntary.............
A few months ago, it was announced in NC that illegal aliens would not be able to collect on any lottery winnings greater than $600. A valid Social Security Card will be required to collect.
Why would NC put a tax program in place that will finally collect taxes from a group of people that don't pay taxes, then discourage them from playing???
They should make lotto winnings from illegals forfeit.........
True, but why encourage them to stay?.........
While they are here, take advantage of them.
That's WHY they are here in the first place!........
Lottery: A voluntary tax paid by poor people who are too stupid to understand what 38,000,000,000 to 1 means. And all of the money that the state makes will end up going into the general fund and you will have a larger government there which will never get smaller again. Congrats North Carolina!!!! (James Carville has been one of the largest lobbyists for the lottery crowd and targets Democrat governors and lawmakers)
And what do you "suggest" the GOVERNMENT should do? Take away people's right to spend their money as they see fit?
Wow. Now North Carolina will have an opportunity to ascertain its math illiteracy rate.
I was FIVE away. So there, Mr. Man!
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