not_a_droid t1_iy0am63 wrote
Reply to comment by slide_into_my_BM in People who win the lottery make poor financial decisions because people who make good financial decisions don't buy lottery tickets. by DjHalk45
Was supposed to be “for the schools”, I’d like to see how those dollars are spent, because, it does not seem like the schools are getting their fair share
Ryan949 t1_iy0di50 wrote
I forget which US state it was (I think it was featured on Last Week Tonight), but the revenue from their newly introduced lottery did technically go to education, it's just that an equal amount was then taken out of the education budget.
therollingchunder t1_iy0f9sm wrote
Maryland. This was an issue a number of years ago when they finally let casinos open. Slots only, then eventually tables too.
Hrmerder t1_iy0nitv wrote
Back in the late 80’s /early 90’s the Mississippi gulf coast started pushing casinos as a way to both bring tons of jobs as well as other industry and also conned the community into thinking the taxes that would go to local and state will be for maintaining roads really well as well as bringing education up to high standards while casinos would be required to have gaming only on semi permanently docked barges and boats which would also allow the casinos to move their barges into canals for better safety against hurricanes.. What actually happened was casinos did do the barge thing and moved them when hurricanes came.. but after years of not moving them due to only smaller less threatening hurricanes (and casinos staying open until it was too late to maximize profits while also unfortunately keeping low paid workers in harms way only allowing them to leave at the last second when it was too late for people to leave), once hurricane Katrina came a lot of them were stuck and couldn’t be moved. As a side effect because of course at this point casinos are required to be open for the local and state governments to get their tax money we never saw implemented locally, the casinos were pardoned in 2006 to have land based locations if their barge was a total loss which was a few. At least 4-5 out of probably 10 casinos were able to operate since then on land.. there is now an all new casino being proposed to be built in one small town across from the beach without having a barge at all.. people have protested but of course the crooked promising money is going to win..
iTwango t1_iy0fju0 wrote
My understanding is in TN it goes to the scholarships that allow free associates degrees to everyone
not_a_droid t1_iy0g7ho wrote
im in tx
wolf805 t1_iy1dzml wrote
Well, regardless. Instead of buying good teaching materials, they'd rather buy screens and tvs to display the school logo.
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