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Re:Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in pr... by SirFatty on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @04:20PM (#15084699)
Lotto in Illinois was introduced as a way to help pay for public education. You can guess how that ended up... hell, they were not even paying the winners for a while (maybe they still are not).
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Re:Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in pr... by derekp7 on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @04:25PM (#15084736)
The lottery does pay for education. And the pre-existing education funds were removed. Net gain in funding: 0.
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Re:Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in pr... by SirFatty on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @05:00PM (#15085083)
Correct, here's a pretty good explanation. It's crazy really.

https://www.wbez.org/shows/curious-city/why-the-illinois-lot...

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Re:Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in pr... by koolba on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @04:41PM (#15084869)
Kind of funny how that works when money is fungible eh?

Same thing happened, and continues to happen, with tobacco tax dollars.

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Re:Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in pr... by jrs235 on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @05:11PM (#15085210)
Not only is Illinois not paying winners, they're aren't selling Powerball or Mega Millions or any multi-state lottery game.

http://wgntv.com/2017/06/27/powerball-mega-millions-ticket-s...

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Re:Ex-lottery worker who rigged winnings gets 25 years in pr... by notfromhere on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @05:14PM (#15085246)
This is outdated. They passed a budget
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