What a bummer, and another reason why state lotteries are a complete and total fucking rip-off. The next time you walk into a convenience store thinking about buying a stupidity ticket and lining up for a voluntary tax, just hand your cash to the homeless guy hanging around the side of the building. At least he's going to score a 40 from your cash.
My old man always used to say that the lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math. I always liked that, even though I'm sure he ripped it off from someone else.
Moving Sale wrote: I could easily have an IQ of 40
OCmike wrote:My old man always used to say that the lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math.
Speaking of math - I don't know what the pay-outs are in other states, but in Missouri scratch off ticket games, only 45% of lottery revenue is paid out in winnings.
Fucking highway robbery. Hell, even the most tightass Indian reservation casino slot machine probably pays back close to twice that. That's why I'm simply astounded whenever I see people fork over hard earned cash for some worthless piece of colored cardboard that will be littering the parking lot 30 seconds after they bought it.
Dinsdale wrote:Yeah, because goodness knows that a voluntary tax in place of mandatory ones is horrific.
It is horrific for that most vulnerable segment of society that's most likely to volunteer, namely poor folk trying to hit the "big one" and get out of poverty. Sadly, all it does is put them further in the hole.
War Wagon wrote:It is horrific for that most vulnerable segment of society that's most likely to volunteer, namely poor folk trying to hit the "big one" and get out of poverty. Sadly, all it does is put them further in the hole.
Gotta go with Dins on this. If you spend all your cash on lottery tickets trying to get out of poverty, you have nobody to blame but yourself. Millions of people are able to gamble without pissing away the rent money. In short, if you can't afford it, don't do it. And if you have to ask if you can't afford it, you can't.
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PSUFAN wrote:moderator: Raise your hand if you don't believe in evolution, if you tithe to Anheuser-Busch, if you know you are but what am I, and can subsist on ankle sushi and Diet Beer.
WacoFan wrote:Flying any airplane that you can hear the radio over the roaring radial engine is just ghey anyway.... Of course, Cirri are the Miata of airplanes..
WacoFan wrote:Flying any airplane that you can hear the radio over the roaring radial engine is just ghey anyway.... Of course, Cirri are the Miata of airplanes..
PSUFAN wrote:moderator: Raise your hand if you don't believe in evolution, if you tithe to Anheuser-Busch, if you know you are but what am I, and can subsist on ankle sushi and Diet Beer.
WacoFan wrote:Flying any airplane that you can hear the radio over the roaring radial engine is just ghey anyway.... Of course, Cirri are the Miata of airplanes..
Still jealous because Fr. Geoghan spurned you, PUS?
WacoFan wrote:Flying any airplane that you can hear the radio over the roaring radial engine is just ghey anyway.... Of course, Cirri are the Miata of airplanes..
We just had an extensive explanation of this whole ankle-biting thingie in another thread, Hy.
Just because this is a different thread from that one doesn't mean you're not an ankle biting little cunt.
WacoFan wrote:Flying any airplane that you can hear the radio over the roaring radial engine is just ghey anyway.... Of course, Cirri are the Miata of airplanes..
