Bentley is calling a special session to introduce a LOTTERY bill. Did not see this
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A valid point--particularly given the AL GOPs antipathy towards public education.
The good thing about a lottery is that it causes lower income people to pay their fair share in taxes.
People who think this will solve the state's budget problems are as dumb as the ones who buy hundreds of lottery tickets thinking they are going to strike it rich.
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I personally think this is great, our state government would finally be able to give themselves even more raises that they so desperately deserve.
I called it that once with a woman, who, unbeknownst to me, was a weekly lottery player.
"Tax on irrational hope" sounds less judgmental.
Yeah the charter school bill was proof of that, right?
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Only six states don't have a lottery. Folks are spending that money so we might as well keep some of it in-state.
IMO a lottery won't pass unless the proceeds go toward education. Helping the kids always tugs at the heart strings.
Didn't the last lottery bill also give three sites/people a monopoly on casino gambling?
IMO a lottery won't pass unless the proceeds go toward education. Helping the kids always tugs at the heart strings.
Didn't the last lottery bill also give three sites/people a monopoly on casino gambling?
Yeah wouldn't want kids to be able to attend better schools. Would be horrible.
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That is the strongest argument in favor. Right now, Alabamians are going to Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida and Alabama having one will keep that money inside the state.
Except it won't go for education. Any proceeds will be offset by reductions in education appropriations. I hope Alabamians aren't stupid enough to fall for that gimmick. If you want to have a lottery, have a lottery, but go into it with your eyes open. The proceeds will not go for education, regardless of what advocates say.
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Sorry, I don't buy that particular shell game. The Accountability Act was pushed by ethical stalwart Mike Hubbard, passed under dubious circumstances, and is more interested in privatizing education than improving it.
Seems like that happens in most every state where the lottery is 'earmarked for education'. SMH
If we got a lottery then we would be able to really compete in other sports. So I think that is enough justification to have one.
All 8 of the teams in the CWS came from a lottery state. Msu and ole miss to my recollection are the only teams to make it in the last 8 years without 1. Heck even stoneybrook made it to the CWS. That's a New York school.
All 8 of the teams in the CWS came from a lottery state. Msu and ole miss to my recollection are the only teams to make it in the last 8 years without 1. Heck even stoneybrook made it to the CWS. That's a New York school.
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More to the point, Bentley and most of the legislators don't care that it won't. This allows them to say that they're doing something without having to take more prudent (albeit more politically difficult) actions, such as reforming the state tax code.
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