[LAist] How California Lawmakers Goosed Jackpots To Create Record-Setting Lottery Sales
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laist.comPosted Jun 21, 2018, 4:40 PM UTC
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laist.comWhat? The schools arent getting the money?!?
Rule #1 in CA politics, where they tell you the money is going it wont. Or they will defund the very same program the "new" money is going to in effect offsetting any gain.
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It’s still mind boggling that Californians support their government when all they do is take their hard earned money and screw them. Why do we allow our government to screw us?
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Because we tend to think we're spending other peoples' money.
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Yep, here’s the script
Gov: We need to raise taxes so we can get more money into the troughs people of California. My $400,000/yr pension isn’t going to pay for itself ya know!
Voters: HELL NO!
Gov: Ok, we’ll take money away from the schools for my pension. Now we need to raise taxes for SCHOOLS!
Voters: TAKE MY MONEY!!! Do you need kidneys too???
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Would be even better if they had per capita sales divided by per capita income.
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Would love to see this stat
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Lol. They would attempt to downplay the shit out it when people see how depressing the stats are.
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This is a very well researched article by the LAist. Glad to see them bounce back with content of this caliber.