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Heisman Winner [139193]
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Lot o points [183121]
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No one has to play if they don't want to.
Jan 10, 2016, 9:45 AM
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Most people understand how long the odds are of winning. What keeps people buying tickets is that no one has ever won the lottery without buying a ticket.
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Walk-On [109]
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Plus, it's fun. And it pays for a bunch of kids to
Jan 13, 2016, 9:42 AM
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go to college. I'm sure that can be refuted, but it certainly doesn't NOT pay for kids to go to college.
I'm not even going to go into how inaccurate the article is about a few things, but it sure does seem like a grumpy old argument to make. What are the chances of winning $1.5B when you spend $6 at Starbucks? What about when you spend $2,000 on a vacation? I wonder if he tithes. What are the chances of winning $1.5B from that? I hate to bring Oreo's in this, but you spend a few bucks and you sit an enjoy Oreo's. There's zero chance of anything good coming out of an Oreo purchase other than you get to enjoy the Oreo's. I certainly hope he isn't overweight, because how much money are you wasting on food?
I like thinking about what I'd do with the money. I like thinking about all the people that I could help with that money. I like thinking about who I would tell first. I like thinking about paying taxes on $1.5B. I have fun with the lottery. I'd much rather pay this kind of tax than the other kind. So why get so butthurt about the lottery? What are your chances of winning $1.5B on literally anything else that you spend your money on? I like my odds with the Powerball better.
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Oculus Spirit [98567]
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Yep. Without reading it is is a tax on the
Jan 10, 2016, 9:52 AM
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dumb and/or poor. I don't mind seeing someone buying ONE ticket, or maybe two. It's the people who I see buying 20, 50, or even 100 that gets me. I know some people do pools or whatever, but I'm sure most of the people I see spending $100+ on the things are spending a huge chunk of their paycheck chasing. It really is cruel to some who are ignorant of finances among a litany of other things.
But I am just as disturbed walking into a trailer with a sagging floor, leaking roof, torn up carpet, etc. with 4 kids in the home and out in front is a $80,000 SUV with $2,000 rims, and inside is a $2,000 TV and they have an iPhone6.
Some people are just irresponsible because they've never been taught better. And if it's not a lottery ticket, it will be the newest smart phone, a new SUV, rims, or a huge 4K HDTV they will blow their money on.
On a side note, one of the BEST things America could do to end poverty is to teach kids, in high school, about savings, checking accounts, interest, credit cards, loans, taxes, insurance, and mortgages. Because right now you can get many college degrees, and even an PhD, and not know JACK about that stuff. The only way Americans learn about household/personal finances is if they have wealthy or successful parents or major in business or go into a career in that area. It is kept a secret from most because the folks making money in finance have an interest in perpetuating financial ignorance.
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All-In [38925]
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I remind some folks that criticize me buying a tix that
Jan 10, 2016, 9:55 AM
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$2 will not even buy me a beer.
Besides I dont buy to hit the jackpot, I WANT 5 NUMBERS!!!
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Heisman Winner [139193]
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The high price of beer is a whole other travesty
Jan 10, 2016, 11:42 AM
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Re: Yep. Without reading it is is a tax on the
Jan 11, 2016, 12:28 AM
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"On a side note, one of the BEST things America could do to end poverty is to teach kids, in high school, about savings, checking accounts, interest, credit cards, loans, taxes, insurance, and mortgages."
Aren't these just things learned in all the various math classes?
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Oculus Spirit [82305]
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Sure, so is the ERA, or Yards per carry,
Jan 13, 2016, 5:09 PM
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Its just math, amiright?
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CU Medallion [60419]
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I have never bought a lottery ticket in my life
Jan 10, 2016, 9:58 AM
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or a pack of cigarettes.
But I don't know where all that extra money I have saved over the years by not doing that has gone.....
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Re: I have never bought a lottery ticket in my life
Jan 10, 2016, 10:35 AM
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Ditto! Preach!
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Heisman Winner [139193]
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I saw some data a few years back that showed areas
Jan 10, 2016, 11:41 AM
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with the highest purchase rates corresponded to the highest crime and poverty levels. I know on the north side of Spartanburg, it's easier to buy a lottery ticket than milk.
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Oculus Spirit [94529]
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The only real winner is the guy who doesn't play.
Jan 10, 2016, 1:13 PM
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Losing a few bucks never bothered me. With my luck I would win the ### thing and ruin the lives of all my children and my relationship with everyone else.
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Orange Blooded [2429]
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Re: The only real winner is the guy who doesn't play.
Jan 10, 2016, 1:20 PM
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Nope the gubmint is the real winner, every time someone wins they get about half.
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What are you talking about? I won $8.00.***
Jan 10, 2016, 4:06 PM
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Oculus Spirit [82305]
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Just about everytime I see someone buying a ticket
Jan 13, 2016, 5:17 PM
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they look just like me when I'm buying one. Except dressed nicer, normally at the end of a crappy week.
Tie undone, shirt a bit wrinkled, buying a 12'er of some cheap beer to go along with it. And when I look them in the eye, they see the same thing I see..a guy going
"if I don't ever have to go back to work again, that would be all right. Nor more jack-ass bosses, customers (or whoever's butt they had to kiss that day to get by). And just in case I do, I'm gonna sit in my chair tonight and think about what I'd do if I never had to work again, and polish off most of this 12 pack.
So I can get up enough gumption to go do it all again tomorrow."
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