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Poor Households Earning $13K Per Year Spend Over $1K On Lottery Tickets

 
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Poor Households Earning $13K Per Year Spend Over $1K On Lottery Tickets
States across the nation rely on poor suckers to fund their spending. No, we’re not talking about taxpayers – we’re talking about lottery ticket purchasers. According to new studies, households earning $13,000 per year spend almost $1,170 per year on lottery tickets – 9 percent of total income. As it turns out, many people living in poverty make poor financial decisions.


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Last Edited by mathetes on 11/29/2012 01:35 PM
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And tons of those same households have multiple sail-foams, flatscreens, XBox.

Reemz on dare carz.

Along with stacks of Papa Johns pizza boxes from all the hot made-to-order food they had delivered.
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I'd like to see how much they pay in cigarette and liquer taxes also.
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Lottery Tickets, Cigarettes, Alcohol...

I wonder what all these add up to for the common poor man who wonders why he has no money?
We were meant to live for so much more, have we lost ourselves?
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Duh.

A lot of poor people are dumb.
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Lottery = Tax on stupid.
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Lottery = Tax on stupid.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 6209063


I used to call it the idiot tax. But many of these poor souls have been brainwashed since birth and are victims of a truly fucked up system. The lottery is more of a tax on hope than anything.

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Lotteries, along with cigarette and liquor taxes to a lesser extent are mechanisms by which the government gets the welfare money back. And it's working.
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Poor people do poor people things, rich people do rich people things...

Poor people use the lottery as a retirement plan, rich people save and invest...
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When I was younger I used to work at a bingo hall. Every 2 weeks when the welfare cheques arrived the place was full of people spending half their cheques on bingo. I had to quit. It just pissed me off too much
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Lotteries are a tax on hope.
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Lotteries are a tax on hope.
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Well said!
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Next year they will spend it and still not have healthcare... banana2
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As it turns out, many people living in poverty make poor financial decisions.


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Lotteries are a tax on hope.
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They're not a tax at all, they're voluntary.
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i hate to say it but it's true, the part that gets me is the facial expresssions on the lottery line, everyone truely believes they can win and ill see ppl of all ages throw 5-$100 on lottery tickets each week, and its always the same people...ive even seen people give up food $ for lottery $ its quite amazing
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i hate to say it but it's true, the part that gets me is the facial expresssions on the lottery line, everyone truely believes they can win and ill see ppl of all ages throw 5-$100 on lottery tickets each week, and its always the same people...ive even seen people give up food $ for lottery $ its quite amazing
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 11333543



It is amazing and yet I've seen it as well. They truly believe they will win.

It's sad.
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i hate to say it but it's true, the part that gets me is the facial expresssions on the lottery line, everyone truely believes they can win and ill see ppl of all ages throw 5-$100 on lottery tickets each week, and its always the same people...ive even seen people give up food $ for lottery $ its quite amazing
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 11333543



It is amazing and yet I've seen it as well. They truly believe they will win.

It's sad.
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i hate to say it but it's true, the part that gets me is the facial expresssions on the lottery line, everyone truely believes they can win and ill see ppl of all ages throw 5-$100 on lottery tickets each week, and its always the same people...ive even seen people give up food $ for lottery $ its quite amazing
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 11333543



It is amazing and yet I've seen it as well. They truly believe they will win.

It's sad.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27748381


whats also sad is hearing how ppl will spend it for example" id quit my job and buy a mansion 8 ferraris, 5 slutty girlfriends, curse out everyone that i dont like and so on" it truely shows you how much of an asshole they would turn into if they had that large amount of money
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Lotteries are a tax on hope.
 Quoting: Prostetnik


They're not a tax at all, they're voluntary.
 Quoting: Carshy McCarsh


The intent of a collection method makes it a tax. It is only levied on those who hope to win big.
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What I find amazing is that universally those who hope to win the lottery, also hope not to be struck by lightening.
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Lottery = Tax on stupid.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 6209063


I used to call it the idiot tax. But many of these poor souls have been brainwashed since birth and are victims of a truly fucked up system. The lottery is more of a tax on hope than anything.

hfburnit
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 14283807


This ^
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Lotteries are a tax on hope.
 Quoting: Prostetnik


They're not a tax at all, they're voluntary.
 Quoting: Carshy McCarsh


The intent of a collection method makes it a tax. It is only levied on those who hope to win big.
 Quoting: Prostetnik


Wrong.

Tax [taks]
noun
1.
a sum of money demanded by a government for its support or for specific facilities or services, levied upon incomes, property, sales, etc.
2.
a burdensome charge, obligation, duty, or demand.
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You might be poor if...


You rent your furniture.

You play the lottery.

You buy cheap Chinese crap from Wal-Mart.

You spend more on bailing wire and duct tape than it would cost to replace your leaky tail pipe.

Your TV is bigger than your dinning room table.
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You might be poor if...


You rent your furniture.

You play the lottery.

You buy cheap Chinese crap from Wal-Mart.

You spend more on bailing wire and duct tape than it would cost to replace your leaky tail pipe.

Your TV is bigger than your dinning room table.
 Quoting: BRIEF


You have ever uttered the phrase "My Obamaphone".
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You might be poor if...


You rent your furniture.

You play the lottery.

You buy cheap Chinese crap from Wal-Mart.

You spend more on bailing wire and duct tape than it would cost to replace your leaky tail pipe.

Your TV is bigger than your dinning room table.
 Quoting: BRIEF


You have ever uttered the phrase "My Obamaphone".
 Quoting: Carshy McCarsh


If you price shop on the 20th and tell them you'll be in on the first...
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I'd like to see how much WE pay in cigarette and liquer taxes also.
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I corrected that for you...
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The same people I see in the casinos in Detroit... Spending their welfare checks trying to make it big. It would make me sad if it didn't piss me off so much. They can't, or won't, work but they can spend hours and hours in the casinos.
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Re: Poor Households Earning $13K Per Year Spend Over $1K On Lottery Tickets
You might be poor if...


You rent your furniture.

You play the lottery.

You buy cheap Chinese crap from Wal-Mart.

You spend more on bailing wire and duct tape than it would cost to replace your leaky tail pipe.

Your TV is bigger than your dinning room table.
 Quoting: BRIEF


You have ever uttered the phrase "My Obamaphone".
 Quoting: Carshy McCarsh


If you price shop on the 20th and tell them you'll be in on the first...
 Quoting: BRIEF


LOL, I don't even know what that means.
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perhaps the chance of winning the lottery is the only happiness that they get. it allows their imagination to go wild
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