Effing tariffs are doing this!
Ditto. I only used to buy them once in a while when the winning amount was very large. At 5 bucks. That ain’t happening anymore.
Yep. Two dollars a few times a year was OK for the fun of imagining what I’d do if I won a huge jackpot. Five dollars is too much. No more Mega Millions for me, even if the jackpot gets into the tens of billions.
Lotteries like this are a tax on the stupid.
We'll buy quick picks every now and again when the jackpots get huge. My wife fantasizing about winning this much money. Ever the optimist, I think about the stress in my life it would bring.
Basically, all of your financial worries would be over but now you'd have a whole bunch of new problems that you never had to face, mostly with managing this vast windfall --avoiding scammers, greedy friends and relatives, dishonest financial managers, and cartels wishing to kidnap your children.
I’m ok with this, as long as they cut the taxes on cigarettes and beer.
And people thought the numbers racket was bad under the mob?
I rarely buy any of that stuff. I think in the past 10 years I paid $3-5 dollars for tickets on lotteries, when they hit $1,000,000,000.
Great! Now I’ll save $5 every time I don’t buy a ticket instead of just $2. I’m going to clean up!
Presumably not 2.5X the chance to win.
1. At $2 it's costing too much per transaction for the sellers in the stores to make money.
2. The psychologists and marketers at the consulting firms that the lottery agency hired recognize that the jackpots have to increase in order to keep players in the game. There are a lot of ticket buyers who only buy when the lottery is sizeable.
I play small amounts, only so I will never enter a casino again.
Buying them with your money, no value, get some mo next munth mentality..
NBD!
At my age, 92, there is no difference between $2 & $5...
My usual one-time purchase (when the lottery exceeds $500,000,000) $20 worth of tickets will now cost $50...
Not too bad when one considers the amount of money my wife spends on slots at the MGM National Harbor every Monday...
Might as well continue pissing the cash away... Cannot take it with me...
The great grandchildren will be claiming it if I have a winner...
Now REMOVE ALL FEDERAL STATE AND LOCAL TAXES.
Drop the price back to two bucks. It costs them nothing.
I’m trying to wrap my head around these lottery officials raising prices on lottery tickets. These companies hardly employ anyone, they make nothing, they produce nothing and yet they’re jacking up the price of their tickets.
This is just pure unmitigated greed.
This is the same state that legalized weed.
Do you really think it gives a damn about the body’s politics physical or mental health?
Yep. I expect this game to go away
Demoncrats are stealing from the poor...again. Gotta pay the salaries and pensions for the trough feeders.