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Chuck Todd: Americans Who Don't Pay Income Tax Fund Gov't More than Rich by Playing Lottery, Slots
Breitbart's Big Journalism ^ | August 26, 2014 | Tony Lee

Posted on 08/30/2014 8:50:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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Chuck Todd, the new host of NBC's Meet The Press, suggested that Americans who do not pay income tax fund public education more than the rich by buying lottery tickets and going to casinos.

While interviewing Ben Carson on CSPAN's After Words, which aired on Sunday, Todd said that Americans who don't pay federal income tax go to casinos or buy lottery tickets and are "spending more money funding our schools, whether it's Detroit or other places." Todd said that though "they are not writing a check to the federal government," poorer Americans "are contributing arguably more money to education [by buying lottery tickets or at casinos] than the rich."

One can argue how lucrative casinos in urban areas are or how much lottery tickets actually fund public education, but nobody is forced to play Powerball, Mega Millions, or go to casinos. Americans, by law, must pay taxes. That's a big difference...

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: bencarson; chucktodd; gambling; lottery; meetthepress; msm; nbc; talkradio; taxes; welfare
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Um, Toddddddd. How much of the free chit do they consume ya big dip?! Oh, and where does that $ they spend come from?


41 posted on 08/31/2014 4:06:57 AM PDT by poobear (Socialism in the minds of the elites, is a con-game for the serfs, nothing more.)
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To: Volunteer
1. Who is Chuck Todd?

Just another NBC propagandist.

42 posted on 08/31/2014 5:34:54 AM PDT by outofsalt
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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I didn’t know EBT cards can be used to play the lottery!! Guess I may have to get one, since we qualify for assistance.

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43 posted on 08/31/2014 6:35:16 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Guns are like parachutes. If you need one and don't have one, you'll probably never need one again.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

F. Chuck Deeply Confused.


44 posted on 08/31/2014 6:45:32 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m not sure of the numbers, but I wholeheartedly support state lotteries and legalized gambling because they are an excellent way to recover and recycle welfare dollars that shouldn’t have been stolen from taxpayers in the first place.


45 posted on 08/31/2014 7:00:57 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, gee Chuck, isn’t it the obligation of government (at least in the view of the elite)to make sure that lower economic class folks are relieved of the burden of government costs?

In that case, shouldn’t the government remove the temptation by ending the lottery and casinos?


46 posted on 08/31/2014 8:33:42 AM PDT by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a murderer, and find one... what's your plan?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My brother-in-law spends between $10,000-$15,000 a year on his gambling. My federal taxes are quite a bit higher than this and I’m not even rich.


47 posted on 08/31/2014 8:49:42 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: 21twelve

Unless something happens soon, The Hunger Games is what we have to look forward to in the not to distant future.


48 posted on 08/31/2014 9:00:33 AM PDT by newfreep ("Evil succeeds when good men do nothing" - Edmund Burke)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If you look at the math involved, he’s got a point... and might be right.


49 posted on 08/31/2014 10:02:14 AM PDT by GOPJ (Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil. —Thomas Mann)
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To: prisoner6
...he can probably SPEND IT BETTER THAN THE GOVERNMENT WHEN IT CONFISCATES IT.

Not spend it "better," spend it more discriminately.

They won't spend it on abortion clinics, Muslim outreach, environmental groups, illegal alien facilitation, etc.

-PJ

50 posted on 08/31/2014 10:09:19 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

51 posted on 08/31/2014 11:37:43 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: dsrtsage

This country sold its’ soul to Satan when the government officially sanctioned gambling.

It’s one thing to tolerate it, a completely other thing to actually encourage it.


52 posted on 08/31/2014 11:46:32 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Mears

Playing to his base. The stupidity astonishes me as well. And this guy gets paid a lot to sound this stupid.


53 posted on 08/31/2014 12:44:53 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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