America needs a National Lottery!

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Todd — Sat, 11 Sep 2004 23:13:16 GMT

Orangeman,You NAILED it when it comes to how the states use the lottery revenue.The lottery starts as a way to supplement the budget, and buy some products and services that the state would otherwise be unable to afford. That's why education is such a great use of the money - because the regular budget delivers all the basic services, plus the lottery revenue provides EXTRA THINGS that are not in the regular budget. (Upgraded buses, newer books, after school programs, etc., etc.)But what happe... [ More ]

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orangeman — Sat, 11 Sep 2004 21:57:02 GMT

A government that can give everything to you can take everything away. We don't need another lottery. The track record of state lottery organizations has been miserable. Why take this greed and corruption to a higher level? The state lottery organizations start out with good intentions and slowly but surely run the whole thing into the ground seeking higher profits.Here in Texas the TLC was supposed to spend the proceeds on education, but it goes into the general fund. They claim the procee... [ More ]

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Timmer692002 — Sat, 11 Sep 2004 21:12:18 GMT

Didn't they have a National Lottery in late 30's until mid 70's?I think it was called The Draft!!J/King - seriously the draft is nothing to joke about.National lottery ... BB is too greedy now. And money raised would not go to what they say it was going too.

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DoctorEw220 — Sat, 11 Sep 2004 21:07:08 GMT

we don't need a national lottery. that would eliminate the fun of seeing people cross state lines to piss away hundreds, maybe even thousands of dollars at a microscopic chance of early retirement.

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JKING — Sat, 11 Sep 2004 20:37:12 GMT

If it was done right, I think it would be great.

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ryanm — Sat, 11 Sep 2004 18:41:35 GMT

A national lottery should never occur.

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teaparty — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:29:07 GMT

Judging from the millions of people around the world who play the green card lottery, the US governments could make billions running an 'America Lottery'. Official USA Green Card LotteryYour chance to Live, work and Study in the USAhttp://www.usafis.org/_sys/EN/yourchance.asp

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Todd — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 15:40:46 GMT

I like Mega Millions and Powerball as the US national lotteries . I think it would be terrible to have one lottery covering every state, because either the odds would be too long, or the jackpots would never get very big.Teaparty, please don't post that response about the Mass Lottery every time a thread like this comes around, because I'm not in business to provide free advertising for the Massachusetts Lottery.

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lchoro — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 15:19:50 GMT

What they need is a lottery that spreads the top prize to many different winners if the prize gets extremely large. Say if a Mega Millions pot reaches $ 50 million or more, have a special drawing where the five-ball winners split the jackpot.

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teaparty — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 07:57:58 GMT

As the Massachusetts State Lottery can be played from any state in THESE GREAT UNITED STATES it could be called America's National Lottery

America needs a National Lottery!

willesden — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 05:11:53 GMT

The UK National Lottery has raised 16 Billion pounds for 'Good Causes' (see link below). The US could raise billions of dollars to fund public health. Yes, most states have lotteries, but competition is good and some people may play both.http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/goodcauses/fundraising.jsp