Republicans just naturally gravitate towards more control of other people, they like authoritarianism. It appeals to them, you don't have to think so much when someone else is telling you how to spend your money, what to think, who to be friends with, who to hate, where to live, what job you are suited for...et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Having to actually use their heads as something more than a convenient place to hold a hat is just scary.

So naturally they assume that because THEY think this way all people should think this way. So why wouldn't poor people welcome some legislator telling them how they may spend their money?
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"You can't fix stupid..." ~ Ron White"

"I never said I wasn't a brat..." ~ Talidapali

if your kids receive lottery scholarships...that is public assistance. You can't claim a lottery prize.

I think there might be a slight difference in claiming public assistance and earning a scholarship. A scholarship is a reward for achieving a set goal. Money given to people because they can't supply food and living for themselves or their families is the type of assistance in question.

I agree with you in that less government is more.

KTB

I receive disability from the government. I have a heart condition and diabetes and asthma and several other conditions all of which add up to me NOT being able to work because the stress of going to a job and being on my feet all day would KILL me...literally. My heart would cease to beat within my chest. Forgive me if I want to live a few more years.

What you all are supporting is that I could not go out and buy a lottery ticket and if I happen to hit it big I would not be able to claim a prize that could support me for the rest of my life, and allow me to go off disability. Keep in mind, when I receive my monthly check it is MY money, I paid into the system all my working life and this is what I am getting back now that I cannot work. But according to this legislation I would not be allowed to purchase what I wanted to purchase because I receive public assistance. I am a 44 year old, not three...I don't need Daddy or Mommy to tell me that playing the lottery is a fools' game at best, whic is why I don't. But, I like every other adult in this country deserve the right to make a bad decision and blow f**king dollar on a lottery ticket if I like. And if I happen to pick the right numbers, I deserve to be able to collect the prize.

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"You can't fix stupid..." ~ Ron White"

"I never said I wasn't a brat..." ~ Talidapali

talidapali,

I am glad that we live in a country where you can receive a monthly check and as you put it "make a bad decision and blow f**king dollar on a lottery ticket".

KTB

I was agreeing with you talidapali. I never claimed that I was for this bill but I apologize for any confusion I may have caused, it was not my intention.

KTB

The government should not be in the lottery business. That's the bottom line.

Here is what is specially screwed up (ok, the whole thing is specially screwed up). If I find out that I have terminal cancer and a winning lottery ticket on the same day, this legislation says that I can't give the lottery ticket to someone on welfare and expect them to collect. OTOH if I were a republican and wanted to leave unearned wealth to useless, non-contributing relatives, they would fight to the death any "liberal" attempt to tell them what should happen to their money after they are dead. (and since you can't take it with you, it is clearly not their money after they are dead)

They get to control what I do with my money/stuff while alive but, I am allowed no say in what happens with their money/stuff when they are dead. How can even a republican not see the hypocrisy in that?

CAFKIA

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