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Win the lottery, keep your food stamps.

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The most disturbing part of this story is the fact that the government is giving this guy money for food when he had money to play the lottery with.

If you have money to play the lottery you shouldn't be getting public assistance to begin with.
 
Patranus said:
The most disturbing part of this story is the fact that the government is giving this guy money for food when he had money to play the lottery with.

If you have money to play the lottery you shouldn't be getting public assistance to begin with.
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Yea because he really wasted that fucking dollar!
 
JTsyo said:
how many has he bought that wasn't winners?
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Doesn't matter, I'm all for conservative welfare spending, but gunning on a dude for buying a lotto ticket is going too far, would you rather he purchased a candy bar with his food stamps?
 
FDF12389 said:
Doesn't matter, I'm all for conservative welfare spending, but gunning on a dude for buying a lotto ticket is going too far, would you rather he purchased a candy bar with his food stamps?
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Seeing as a candy bar is food, why yes, I would rather he purchased a candy bar with his food stamps.

There's a reason the lottery is called the idiot tax.
 
Kev said:
What the fuck is somebody on food stamps doing buying lottery tickets. That should be illegal.
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If you have bought lotto tickets in the past should you be DQ from applying for food stamps? You're going to have dumb people getting food stamps, it comes with the territory.

Even if you had supplied rations instead of food stamps there would still be abuse.

The process of making it illegal to buy lotto tickets while on food tamps would waste tax dollars and be impossible to enforce.
 
Kev said:
Seeing as a candy bar is food, why yes, I would rather he purchased a candy bar with his food stamps.

There's a reason the lottery is called the idiot tax.
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So you would rather an individual on welfare spend your tax dollars on something with no return on investment that is also unhealthy with almost no nutritional value rather than he spend his own dollar to win the lottery?

Wheres the logic? One dumb thing is ok, another isn't?
 
FDF12389 said:
If you have bought lotto tickets in the past should you be DQ from applying for food stamps? You're going to have dumb people getting food stamps, it comes with the territory.

Even if you had supplied rations instead of food stamps there would still be abuse.

The process of making it illegal to buy lotto tickets while on food tamps would waste tax dollars and be impossible to enforce.
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Enforce it after the fact -- just make it illegal to collect winnings. Not only do you not have to pay these scumbag leeches their winnings, but you get to laugh in their face when they win a jackpot and can't claim it.
 
FDF12389 said:
So you would rather an individual on welfare spend your tax dollars on something with no return on investment that is also unhealthy with almost no nutritional value rather than he spend his own dollar to win the lottery?

Wheres the logic? One dumb thing is ok, another isn't?
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Not in your post, that's for sure. A lottery ticket is in no way an investment, it's a negative expected value gamble. At least a candy bar provides caloric sustenance. Ask a starving child, would he rather have a lottery ticket or a candy bar. do you get the point now?
 
tcsenter said:
The guy won the money on a TV game show (owned by the Michigan State Lottery).
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And paid more in taxes than all of the knuckleheads in this thread combined. But don't let the OP and other ignoramuses discuss the facts. B/c we all know participating in a game show is the same as buying a lottery ticket.

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Well since he's still going to collect benefits I wonder if he'd get in trouble if he just donated it to a food bank or something.
 
spidey07 said:
Cut me a break. I have to balance gains/losses from gambling so I wrongly assumed it was capital gains.
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This isn't the first thread you've provided erroneous tax information. That being said, the Code (and some states) allows you to offset wins up to the extent of losses (and in the case of the federal return, you must itemize to offset).

As for an on-topic reply, the fact that these payouts aren't included in eligibility income is a damn travesty. Furthermore, why is this individual purchasing lottery tickets in the first place?
 
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