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Actually, I was a lottery retailer for years, had multiple million plus winners, 6 million, 4 million and 5 1 millions dollar winners. As owner of the stores, I received 1 percent bonus totalling $150,000, over ten years. Gave over half of it to the employees. Also the lottery employs thousands in each state. Here in Indiana most of the profits goes to the schools. I call playing the lottery, “A voluntary tax”, the Only tax if it’s kind.You gotta play to win
Personally I'm not a fan of the lottery. It's not a legitimate business. In a legitimate business everyone wins. With the lottery thousands, millions have to lose for one or a few to win. Then the government takes half with absolutely no input at all
Another two hours in bed with the Mrs, so many for her, but apparently my orgasm, “Just doesn’t matter .” It’s been a week now without out one. Told her today I’m forgetting what it feels like.
Good for you! I call the lottery the "stupid tax" because the vast majority of people who play are the least likely to afford it. They say it goes to the schools, but not really because it typically ends up in the way of additional pay and benefits for teachers and administrators, while the kids have to attend classes in trailers that they bring in because the school classrooms are no longer large enough to accommodate the ever increasing number of kids. God forbid that the money goes to building larger schools or fixing the baseball or athletic fields, or having a music program that the parents don't have to pay for their kids to participate in.
But what do I know? I'm just an old fart that graduated from high school in 1976 when the pubic screwls operated much differently than they do today.
To bad. Must be a Blue state where your politicians spend your grandkids money before they even get a job, all to get themselves reelected with other money, promises, promises. The Hoosier state actually has a surplus, SO MANY businesses relocating here from Blue Illinois
Actually that was a BLUE state - Washington. All Democrats. Just before we moved out of the state the county we lived in floated a bond measure to increase property taxes by $1.50 per thousand of home value for the next four years. It failed, but democrats said the voter turnout wasn't sufficient. So they were able to get the county (run by democrats) to run the vote again. This time they spent thousands on yard signs that were posted everywhere, and then hired a mob (some teachers) who went door to door begging people to vote for the bond measure. The signs were predictable, they're always the same ..... "It's for the children!"
The vote passed by a very slim margin of less than 500 votes.
I did a little math and the people who bought our home for 736K will be paying over $9000 in property taxes at the end of those four years.
I feel really sorry for all the elderly people who live on fixed incomes!
My sister lives in Canton Illinois and says the school district where they live is a joke. Kids are getting dumber and dumber, reading comprehension and math for high school graduates is at a 9th grade level, it's even worse up in the Chicago area.
You can take trucks full on money and dump it at the door of every pubic screwl in Washington and within four years they will be back, hat in hand while acting like travel agents for guilt trips doing their best to convince parents they need more money.
Yep. Throw gasoline money on the fire, I’m sure it will go out and problem solved.Actually that was a BLUE state - Washington. All Democrats. Just before we moved out of the state the county we lived in floated a bond measure to increase property taxes by $1.50 per thousand of home value for the next four years. It failed, but democrats said the voter turnout wasn't sufficient. So they were able to get the county (run by democrats) to run the vote again. This time they spent thousands on yard signs that were posted everywhere, and then hired a mob (some teachers) who went door to door begging people to vote for the bond measure. The signs were predictable, they're always the same ..... "It's for the children!"
The vote passed by a very slim margin of less than 500 votes.
I did a little math and the people who bought our home for 736K will be paying over $9000 in property taxes at the end of those four years.
I feel really sorry for all the elderly people who live on fixed incomes!
My sister lives in Canton Illinois and says the school district where they live is a joke. Kids are getting dumber and dumber, reading comprehension and math for high school graduates is at a 9th grade level, it's even worse up in the Chicago area.
You can take trucks full on money and dump it at the door of every pubic screwl in Washington and within four years they will be back, hat in hand while acting like travel agents for guilt trips doing their best to convince parents they need more money.
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Same. It was a good weekend - glorious weather, however I somehow caught a summer cold and have been static and bored most of the weekend. I spent much of it watching videos about UFOs. Feeling a lot better this morning.
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Yeah. That and David Fravor. It's probably the most impressive content available. I've been paying attention to Fravor for a few years. His interview with Lex Fridman is excellent. Long, but excellent and a fascinating overview of life inside a fighter jet cockpit.
I also watched some of George Knapp's old news segments from the 1980s. And I watched a documentary I highly recommend called Mirage Men. You can find it on YouTube for free. It's about a guy named Rick Doty who was an OSI asset whose job was to disinform the UFO research community. In fact, the UFO research community has probably been infiltrated by many intelligence assets and foreign counterintelligence disinformants. Much of the popularized mythology of UFOs is pure fiction written by disinformation campaigns. The stuff will make your head spin.
Rick Doty has since tried to fashion himself as friendly to the UFO community, but I think he destroyed his credibility. His stories about seeing films and photographs of alien autopsies and several species of aliens are unbelievable. If he did really see these things, I wonder if it occurred to him that his superiors might be trying to disinform him too.
Fun stuff.
The earth from outer space is a tiny dot hidden within the glow of the sun in a corner of our galaxy. Now that’s a place aliens would target to explore.
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Actually our sun is a very unique size which lends itself more apt to have planets with water and thus more likely to support life, intelligent life on Earth is still in question. I personally believe two possibilities, if in fact they are real. First, they are from our future, a mutated human with possible AI augmentations exploring a time when the planet was new, lush and green, abundant with so many different species. A living future-past zoo, to study or just vacation too. Or second, they are a completely alien species, friend or foe testing to see what our response will be if they chose to make first contact. Or. Earth is just the galaxy’s Cancun, vacation destination, water, women, song…sex, drugs and Rock n Roll.
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Thanks! A little better every day from this point. I always get a fever with these upper respiratory infections. I woke up this morning at 5AM soaked in cold sweat because the fever broke. It was a definite turning point.
