Older Pennsylvanians lose from lawmakers' raid on lottery fund

Comment #18

dpoly1 — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 18:35:04 GMT

I want to win the Mega Millions Jackpot tonight and leave this Sate Of Corruption

Comment #17

dartiger — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 10:04:13 GMT

that is true with so many games those of us with just straight and box tickets loose, look at the pay out amount to lottery numbers 13,000 and low pay outs now they added some wild ball mess makes it more difficult. so the poplar nos dont come out because they cant and dont want to pay it out.

Comment #16

Bleudog101 — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 19:31:09 GMT

Reminds me of the time the Social Security Trust Fund was raided. Though illegal, it happened anyway. No accountability whatsoever.

Comment #15

Lotto Scratcher — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 16:11:50 GMT

The PA lottery needs to be investigated. Bunch of con artists if you ask me

Comment #14

Hammer730 — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 12:52:39 GMT

Your right, they did cut back this year. Must have not made enough money, lol.

I guess my one ticket per raffle wasn't enough (never won jack) I couldn't care

less if they squandered all the money. I just want better payouts for the players.

its just business for them, reality for us. Seriously 3.07% tax give me a claim winner

first! Maybe the casinos are the better option or just drastically cutting back. Good luck

everyone.

Comment #13

Coin Toss — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 00:26:52 GMT

zephbe,

The one I posted was the US Army version, cleaned up a little bit.

There's another that goes along with it, If you don't have the time to do it right the first time, where do you think you'll get the time to do it over.

Comment #12

Cruzincat — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 19:13:24 GMT

Where did the money for the elderly come from before they earmarked the Lottery proceeds? This is one of the reasons I get disgusted when the government creates a new tax or lottery and earmarks the revenue for a certain demographic. Usually the money that used to come out of the general fund for those projects becomes available for someone's pet project somewhere else.

If the Lottery cannot keep up with the demand, then they should just take it from where it used to come from, to make up the... [ More ]

Comment #11

RL-RANDOMLOGIC — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 19:01:58 GMT

I read a article about the baby boomer crisis and was taken back on what many on that site were saying.

Things like the baby boomers are dead weight, useless, wish they were dead etc... This is a real crisis

but is not limited to just baby boomers. The birth rate fell after the boom but not by that much. The

boomers represent the largest increase but the population explosion continued well past that generation.

The problem is the result of two things, mismanagement of funds and the m... [ More ]

Comment #10

Chris$ — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 17:40:30 GMT

The everyday players are the ones who will be screwed.

they will find a way to make the odds worse for us and

more profitable for them. It's been slowly happening for years

Comment #9

GiveFive — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 14:56:16 GMT

It USED TO BE 4 raffles per year.

The PA Lottery quietly cancelled the Fall raffle (due to lousy results in terms of ticket sales for the Spring 2016 and 4th of July raffles) and went back to have holding just two. G5

Comment #8

luckyshoes — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 14:39:49 GMT

Well said.

Comment #7

jojosurf — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 11:11:13 GMT

This fund was not to be used they keep coming up with new games and making tons of money especially with there rigged drawings

Comment #6

Hammer730 — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 10:50:54 GMT

It's 4 raffles per year. Stealing money from players too. Need better odds payouts.

Comment #5

GiveFive — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 09:52:19 GMT

I don't care what The State of PA does with their lottery games as long as they don't touch the twice annual Millionaire Raffle. That's the best thing they have going for them, and hopefully they know that.

I know how selfish of me that statement is, but as a senior citizen that does not live in PA, I can't and don't benefit from their lottery proceeds. Therefore it does not matter to me what they do with their games with the sole exception of the raffle. G5

Comment #4

zephbe — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 09:47:32 GMT

PPPPPP

prior planning prevents p*ss poor performance is the way i heard it put.

Comment #3

KY Floyd — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 06:16:17 GMT

They created a 3% tax to players so there goes three percent that could have generated a healthy economy.

Right. Because they're going to bury that money in a box instead of spending it.

Comment #2

Coin Toss — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 01:09:32 GMT

PPPPP

Pee Poor Proper Prior Planning

Comment #1

TheGameGrl — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 00:46:01 GMT

Gov Wolfe has been shuffling these lottery funds for awhile. Since they put such stern regulations on which seniors qualify I have little sympathy for their mismanaging. They created a 3% tax to players so there goes three percent that could have generated a healthy economy. Let Trump fix this since he is so eager to tout his authority. Maybe he'll build hotels for the home bound.

Older Pennsylvanians lose from lawmakers' raid on lottery fund

Lottery Post — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 00:32:49 GMT

Includes video report

Pennsylvania is now six years into the glut of baby boomers aging into their senior years and it's taking a toll on the Pennsylvania Lottery, which pays for the programs that serve them.

Unless some changes happen and/or lottery ticket sales rise dramatically, the budget office projects the lottery fund that pays for senior programs could come up more than $70 million short in the next fiscal year and the situation worsens in ensuing years.

We've been hit by the t... [ More ]