Lottery players on public assistance (program, billion, percentage, alcohol)
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Try to implement that. If someone knew that they would lose their winnings, they'd give the ticket to a close relative or a child as a gift.
And it might deter them if they have to fight it out within a family to commit fraud against the public they're leeching off of.
Sounds like a win-win to me and it will keep the welfare system more honest. Now, if we could apply that same policy in regards to alcohol, cable TV, Internet, etc....
That would be true if all those things could be had for a dollar.
Overall, what I see on this thread is just detest for the lower class by people who probably aren't far off from being in that class.
Maybe you've never heard of the term "A penny spar'd is twice got."
That's a term that would lift those people out of the poverty they're in. However, we have a group of people in this country that try to rationalize irrational behavior and in doing so are implicit in the fraud foisted upon the American people know as 'welfare' in today's terms.
So since you view that as unnecessary, money they can waste, we can take the 50 million on some form of assistance, cut $1 per week from every form of assistance, and volla.we just cut the budget $2.6 billion annually.
Thanks for the suggestion.
everyone on social programs plays the lottery ? and where did you get 2.6 billion ?
Not with all the free Obamaphones and the fact that welfare recipients can play the lottery more consistently than anyone else proves that they're living way too high on the hog.
My Filipina girlfriend told me that the typical average "poor American" would be considered middle class by Filipino standards.
If they win money, 100% + $1 (or $2, how much ever a lottery ticket is) should be distributed to the taxpayers and their welfare should be abolished.
So sorry. Next time don't lie to the people you're leeching off of about your dire straits.
Exactly. If you are on public assistance and win the lottery, you must pay back ALL monies/goods received, for however long you were/are on public assistance, with a 35% tax penalty BACKDATED. Then, an additional 30% taken off the top, to assist, "others who were in your situation." And, of course, be automatically removed now and FOREVER receiving ANY public assistance in the future.
You seem unaware of the fact that most getting public assistance are working poor -- not the mass of freeloaders idea pedaled by Romney. As such, of the wages they earn they have every right to spend it on anything they want.
It's funny how conservatives, who say they are for individual rights, don't think the poor have that right.
The poor shouldn't have rights. The gays shouldn't have rights. Women shouldn't have rights.
But hey! They're all for individual rights.
Poverty is too comfortable in the United States, when people on public assistance have money to purchase lottery tickets.
Is there really true poverty in the United States? Most people in poverty, on SSI, public assistance, have cell phones, Internet, cable, these are hardly items that are necessary for activities of daily living.
do you know how much lottery tickets cost? Mega lotto is 2 bucks. How many people in America dont have 2 bucks in their pocket?
I played two tickets...4 bucks. Hardley out of the reach of most Ameircans.
The tax they will pay will be way more than what ever benefits they got.
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