Posted on 08/30/2015 9:33:59 PM PDT by sparklite2
Without a state budget agreement two months into the new fiscal year, there’s no authority for the state comptroller to cut checks over $25,000. That means smaller winnings can be paid out, but not the larger lottery wins.
Susan Rick, who lives in Oglesby, Illinois, planned home fix-ups and a visit to her daughter after her boyfriend won $250,000 last month. But they were told to wait.
Rick tells the Chicago Tribune that if the situation were reversed, the state would “come take it, and they don’t care whether we have a roof over our head.”
Lottery spokesman Steve Rossi says state lottery, like every other state agency, is “affected by the budget situation.”
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
The Illinois education lottery: Heads we win, tails you lose. You’ve now been educated.
Why not slap a lean on state property?
Well somebody has to pay to incarcerate all of those Illinois politicians.
Sue for breach of contract and also intent to defraud. The state knows it cannot pay out the top prizes, yet continues to run a lottery and offer large cash prizes.
That’s what happened to the Tower of Pisa.
Someone slapped a lean onto it.
It’s a toll free call, but I’ll save Illinois the time of calling Dave Ramsey...
Make out a budget, write it down, stick to it, pay the smallest bills first and work your way up to biggest lottery winner.
(OH, and tear up your Lottery Card, NOW,NOW,NOW !!!!!)
Let’s hope the next financial crisis truly bankrupts corrupt, progressive, leftist states like NY and IL. Complete collapse and restructuring is the only hope of reform.
Obama’s “stimulus” and the Federal Reserve’s QE money-printing programs effectively bailed out their minions in state government last time. Will it happen again?
Somewhere there is an Illinois lawyer plotting a class action suit...
EVERY player (who could not win the big prizes) was defrauded into thinking they could. All they have to do is say they would not have bought that ticket knowing the biggest prize would be under 25K, but they were enticed by the promise of bigger winnings.
they can’t pay out?
that means someone’s been embezzling
Obama and Illinois.
At any other time your comment would have been funny. But here?
Now that was funny.
To a liberal, the answer is simple: raise taxes.
“Politicians say, ‘More taxes will solve everything’......and the band played on...”
You have to have a heart of stone
not to laugh at states who can’t
live within the taxpayer’s means.
They (the lottery winners) won’t know they are truly screwed until Illinois eventually passes a budget and they try to collect. Bet you $5 some of them get told they didn’t claim their winnings within the specified time and are no-longer eligible. I would not put this past the crooked politicians...
A heart of gold and laughing.........
The mob did a better job of running the numbers racket.
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