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Big-time Illinois Lottery winners aren’t getting the largesse. They’re getting left out.

Without a state budget agreement two months into the new fiscal year, there’s no authority for the state comptroller to cut checks over $25,000. That means smaller winnings can be paid out, but not the larger lottery wins.

Susan Rick, who lives in Oglesby, Illinois, planned home fix-ups and a visit to her daughter after her boyfriend won $250,000 last month. But they were told to wait.

Rick tells the Chicago Tribune that if the situation were reversed, the state would “come take it, and they don’t care whether we have a roof over our head.”

Lottery spokesman Steve Rossi says state lottery, like every other state agency, is “affected by the budget situation.”

A crisis! And you should never let one go to waste. Guess Illinois had better elect some more democrats, who can then screw things up even further.

The boyfriend, Danny Chasteen, told CNBC:

“For the first time, we were finally gonna get a break,” Rick said. “And now the Illinois Lottery has kind of messed everything up.”

Under state law, checks for such winnings must be cut by the state comptroller’s office and, since lawmakers have yet to approve a budget, the office cannot release those funds, the newspaper said.

From the comments:

The Illinois lottery is setup similar to the New Deal’s Social Security Fund which is also broke. Lottery funds collected are made available to the state government.

A quick check will reveal that the Illinois state government has more debt than income. Therefore lottery funds collected are spent before they are received. The same situation exists with the federal government. The difference is that the federal government can raise the debt ceiling, borrow money needed for todays expenses and defer payment to children and grandchildren. Illinois can not print currency and put it in circulation.

Every Quantative Easing dollar printed takes buying power from the dollars in your pocket and savings.

The Illinois version of Quanitative Easing is an IOU from the state. Which takes buying power away from lottery winners.

But will this stop people from playing/paying the id10t tax? Hell no…
In Oregon they tricked the sheeple by playing a constant loop of “it’s for the children. Won’t somebody PLEASE think of the CHILDREN?!” Since then, they’ve spent millions on addiction recovery services and BILLIONS on advertising trying to get the sheeple to keep buying. Unfortunately for them, it’s kind of hard when you have commercials that show wilderness and a voiceover saying something like “lottery dollars help us steal this land that is rightfully yours and keep you from enjoying it unless you’re a liberal environmentalist. Please keep giving us money to take away your land and rights.” Unfortunately for conservatives, liberals see nothing wrong with this…
- P_Ang | 09/01/2015 @ 07:53
Nice new header art.
Saaaaayyyy, is that a BLUNT that Dwane Nutting is holding?
- CaptDMO | 09/03/2015 @ 09:59

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