Posted on 11/13/2006 4:28:50 AM PST by Sybeck1
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The author of the bill that created the Tennessee Lottery says he may consider working on a bill to create a national lottery to pay of the national debt when he heads to Congress.
Democratic state Senator Steve Cohen will succeed Congressman Harold Ford Junior in Tennessee's 9th District.
He also has plans to support a raise in the minimum wage and a Medicaid waiver to allow more home health care for senior citizens and those with disabilities.
Cohen says he wants to become the first white member of the Congressional Black Caucus and a member of the House Progressive Caucus, but he has no plans of joining the fiscally conservative Blue Dog Democrat Caucus with colleagues John Tanner, Jim Cooper and Lincoln Davis.
Cohen says he'd also like to see the rarely used Pyramid arena in Memphis become a mid-America annex of the Smithsonian Institute.
(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
Starting a national lottery would put a lot of state lotteries out of business.
You wonder why the Dems are so infatuated with lotteries, don't you? All they do is transfer money from the poor to the rich.
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I had this idea a loooong time ago . The drawings would be held twice a year . The 4th of July and New Years Day. Lottery tickets would be $5.00 /each and be sold at terminals in the Post Office. The grand prize would be a potential trip on the Space Shuttle . The prize would be also transferrable if you wanted to sell it instead of taking the trip .
I think it is a great idea. I have been playing the lottery religiously in an attempt to get out of heavy credit card debt.....:)
How about a nationalized casino system as well? Stupid democrats think we can gamble and tax our way to prosperity.
The poor and foolish will play as many lotteries as they can each week. I have seen people cashing checks at the gas station and the first thing they buy are lottery tickets. It is a way of the government getting more money.
Lets put this on the list of bad ideas by Dems. While it may be a chance to 'tax' the poor, it is a bad idea to keep giving the government more and more streams of revenue. They spend all they get.
Well, that's one way to tax the poor. Cigarette and gas taxes being the others.
How about they just redirect a few dollars out of legitimate taxpayers pockets and surprise them with it (the jackpot)?
Buying lottery tickets=Paying your stupid tax.
Buying lottery tickets=Paying your stupid tax.
Make the grand prize deportion to your country of origin if you are here illegally.
The Mega Millions put the VA out of business. National systems will just create large pools of money to rob by both parties.
Actually, not that bad an idea. Might as well have a little fun doing it although your chances were a lot better with the old illegal policy games.
If the 'Rats could ever balance a Trillion dollar budget with a lottery, they'd be immediately then increasing spending to 1.2 Trillion.
Or, thet could use the $$$ to fight some phoney-assed global warming scam, main thing is spend money.
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