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They are numbers games that the government runs that basically only poor people participate in, spending a disproportionately high amount of their own income in a game they will never win and also that money never finds its way into the programs it is supposed to. Also every time I go into the store for something some alkie lottolord is trying to turn the cash register into his own person Vegas and just gently caress off man.
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:29 |
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# ? Mar 19, 2024 04:46 |
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Nobody is forcing poors to spend their welfare check on a pyramid scheme.
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:32 |
its funny to watch people pay to be bad at math
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:32 |
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i think this same op started an anti lottery thread like six months ago get off yr high horse and gtfo of my way i'm buying lotto and ima win this time
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:33 |
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can't win if you don't play!
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:33 |
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yep it is pretty hosed up OP
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:33 |
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But... someone HAS to win and one day It Will Be Me.
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:34 |
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Look, the odds of winning are 1:4.53 Ill be a millionaire sooner or later. Gotta spend money to make money
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:35 |
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We should probably ban lotteries and just instate a straight-up stupid tax.
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:35 |
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nomadologique posted:i think this same op started an anti lottery thread like six months ago I actually didn't.
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:36 |
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sometimes i use extra $1s to get scratch offs because ones are pretty useless but my city like only sells 5s and above now and its like drat poor people got money
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:36 |
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Oh also it leads to poor people opposing progressive tax hikes on the rich because they don't want to pay those taxes one day when they are rich from playing the lottery.
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:36 |
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Darth123123 posted:can't win if you don't play!
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:36 |
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It's a tax op.
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:37 |
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Lawman 0 posted:It's a tax op. Yeah a super regressive one.
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:38 |
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But how else will we pay for education without a stupidity tax on the most vulnerable?
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:38 |
im in favor of lotteries because otherwise my taxes would be higher
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:38 |
Will the stupid tax be flat? Hopefully I'm too stoopid to understand a graduated system.
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:39 |
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The top marginal tax rate should be 90%.
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:39 |
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zoux posted:The top marginal tax rate should be 90%. You mean like during the times when the nation was the most prosperous? PREPOSTEROUS!
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:40 |
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zoux posted:The top marginal tax rate should be 90%. Top income or top stupidity?
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:42 |
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Yeah you don't see it when the idiot's in front of you buyin' tix, but who knows what potholes he's paying for, or some other civics kinda poo poo.
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:43 |
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How is it bad if someone eventually wins, it's another form of gambling and anyone who willingly participates (should) be well aware of the odds. Another yuppie telling the poors what to think and do imo.
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:43 |
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sorry about your gambling addiction op
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:44 |
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People do such a bad job of living their own lives they really shouldn't have very much financial agency imho.
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:44 |
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tell someone who won $20 million how dumb they are, op
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:49 |
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So you ban lotteries and then you go back to how it used to be with people buying black market lotteries where the winners are fixed or sometimes non-existent. People will be dumb with their money as a rule. Can you blame the government for wanting their cut? BTW even with legal lotteries, the underground "numbers" games still exist.
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:50 |
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LifeSizePotato posted:tell someone who won $20 million how dumb they are, op See what Ill do there is just wait four years after they are completely destitute again because that's what happens to virtually all lottery winners because someone who buys a shitload of lotto tickets their whole lives guess what! Also don't have very good money mgmt skills.
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:51 |
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Here in Canada they've had a huge decline in lottery sales. I suspect that its a combination of younger people realizing that you're better off not spending money on it and that people have less disposable income.
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:51 |
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tiananman posted:So you ban lotteries and then you go back to how it used to be with people buying black market lotteries where the winners are fixed or sometimes non-existent. People will be dumb with their money as a rule. Can you blame the government for wanting their cut? Banning lotteries is just one plank in my 1000 point platform on How to Fix this lovely Nation by Transitioning to Full FUckin' Communism.
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:51 |
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zoux posted:See what Ill do there is just wait four years after they are completely destitute again because that's what happens to virtually all lottery winners because someone who buys a shitload of lotto tickets their whole lives guess what! Also don't have very good money mgmt skills. they're not spending money on lotto tickets, they're spending it on hope
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:54 |
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We need to murder rich people and take their money to fund this poo poo.
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:54 |
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Better than spending most of your income on imaginary spaceships
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:54 |
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have a state run lottery where you have no choice if you play or not and if you are picked you have to fight with 23 other people in some kind of crazy space age arena. maybe you'll catch on fire or something. we'll call it Poorpeople Wars.
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:54 |
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zoux posted:Banning lotteries is just one plank in my 1000 point platform on How to Fix this lovely Nation by Transitioning to Full FUckin' Communism. The only way to ban lotteries completely is to IQ cleanse the population. OH but that's right you're going to be killing your way to full blown communism anyway, carry on.
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:55 |
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Can't get rid of the lottery, the lottery should be free.
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:55 |
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I'm pretty libertine about a lot of things, but I draw the line at gambling because that is legalized rat poison. Ban all of it.
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:56 |
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Goon: "Haha yeah the lottery is really just a stupid tax for dumb people" *Goon buys account on an internet forum in the year 2014 to post "im gay" in every thread*
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:56 |
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lol at people who buy scratchers also
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:57 |
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On a related note lottery winners often have sucky lives post-winning. Source: something I read on the 'net
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# ? Sep 15, 2014 18:58 |