Just another NBC propagandist. 
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...
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Um, Toddddddd. How much of the free chit do they consume ya big dip?! Oh, and where does that $ they spend come from?
Just another NBC propagandist.
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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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F. Chuck Deeply Confused.
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.
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?
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.
Unless something happens soon, The Hunger Games is what we have to look forward to in the not to distant future.
If you look at the math involved, he’s got a point... and might be right.
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
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.
Playing to his base. The stupidity astonishes me as well. And this guy gets paid a lot to sound this stupid.
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