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Just thinking out loud. How is it that every day millions of people pay into the SS system and yet it is expected to run out of money in 10 years. But it only takes one day for a citizen to walk into a Quiky-Mart, pays 2$ for a ticket and walks out a millionaire or even a billionaire. And the Lottery is not running out of money! Just food for thought.  'I am the danger'...Hiesenberg NRA Certified Pistol Instructor NRA Certified Rifle Instructor NRA Life Member | ||
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I have been hearing that for 50 years! __________________________________________________ If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit! Sigs Owned - A Bunch | |||
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Void Where Prohibited |
Different business models. The Lottery brings in more money than it pays out. "If Gun Control worked, Chicago would look like Mayberry, not Thunderdome" - Cam Edwards | |||
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| Bookers Bourbon and a good cigar  |
If the Federal government would stop taking and spending money out of the Social Security Trust Fund, there would be no issue. If you're goin' through hell, keep on going. Don't slow down. If you're scared don't show it. You might get out before the devil even knows you're there. NRA ENDOWMENT LIFE MEMBER | |||
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In addition to the USG spending money it doesn't have, there is also the inconvenient reality that the lottery takes in money from a lot of folks and only pays out to a few, while the SSA pays out to millions of people who live way longer than they did when the concept was conceived. | |||
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| His diet consists of black coffee, and sarcasm.  |
 Although I paid into the system almost 50 years, that amount, even with employers matching, would only pay for mine about two years. | |||
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Sigforum K9 handler |
Not always the case. Google Illinois lottery can’t pay winners. The question you ask answers itself fairly quickly. | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money  |
The lottery is NOT a Ponzi scheme. "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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| probably a good thing I don't have a cut |
Don't worry. I promise to spend it all if I win the MegaMillions tomorrow. | |||
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Why can’t we manage our own SSA account? It’s our money? | |||
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| My other Sig is a Steyr.  |
Check out the tax laws for Galveston County, Texas.  | |||
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| probably a good thing I don't have a cut |
Any one in particular or all of them? | |||
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| Left-Handed, NOT Left-Winged! |
There is no "trust fund" in any legal or normal sense of the word. Never has been. Don't repeat the lie FDR told. | |||
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| My other Sig is a Steyr. |
Galveston found a loophole and got to exempt themselves from federal retirement laws and invest fully in stocks instead. Work about twenty years and you're done. They make more retired at age 40 than when they were working. Privatized from day one. Everything you put in stays there and isn't a slush fund to buy windmills or an endangered mole-rat. | |||
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Prepared for the Worst, Providing the Best |
Because every day millions of people walk into the Quicky-Mart and pay into the lottery, but never get anything to show for it. And in my experience from getting stuck in line behind them waiting for the clerk to ring up all their tickets, usually they're spending a lot more that $2. | |||
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| Left-Handed, NOT Left-Winged! |
They should refuse lottery sales during morning commutes. Can't stand getting stuck in line behind the degenerate gamblers buying scratch offs, lotto tickets, and cigarettes. | |||
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