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15 Years Later, Where Did All The Cigarette Money Go?
NPR ^ | October 13, 2013

Posted on 10/14/2013 10:32:10 AM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 10/14/2013 10:32:10 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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It probably went to education....for the children you know.


2 posted on 10/14/2013 10:33:36 AM PDT by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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Where did it go?

Democrat coffers, of course. Expensive keeping a watch on that flag on Mars and buying arms for Al Quaida.


3 posted on 10/14/2013 10:39:33 AM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/nicolae-hussein-obama/)
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“while Kentucky has invested half of its money in agricultural programs.”

Tobacco subsidies no doubt.


4 posted on 10/14/2013 10:39:55 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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It sure as heck didn’t go for any medical treatments of lung diseases!


5 posted on 10/14/2013 10:40:06 AM PDT by Average Al
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There were three lawyers in Ohio that got $96 million apiece.


6 posted on 10/14/2013 10:40:49 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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Probably the same black hole the Lottery money drops into.


7 posted on 10/14/2013 10:41:49 AM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes mandatory ... Thomas Jefferson)
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DNC...............


8 posted on 10/14/2013 10:41:55 AM PDT by Red Badger (TANSTAAFL always wins. Always...........................)
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there is a deep black hole where all the money goes and no one knows - but wherever it goes it ends up in a lefty's pocket. There absolute geniuses in manipulating slush funds.
9 posted on 10/14/2013 10:42:02 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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Six figure pensions for 50 year old retired gubmint employees.


10 posted on 10/14/2013 10:43:45 AM PDT by forgotten man
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What I can’t wait to see is what happens when it stops...


11 posted on 10/14/2013 10:44:14 AM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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—IIRC, in Nevada it went into a scholarship program for students who otherwise (academically) didn’t qualify for “college” educations-—


12 posted on 10/14/2013 10:45:32 AM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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The only thing I have seen is the lame commercials from some state agency claiming that people smoking in one apartment are affecting people in the apartment next door.


13 posted on 10/14/2013 10:46:00 AM PDT by oldbrowser (The debt limit is the emergency brake on government spending)
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I've recently become interested in "Judicial Revue", a tactic? that can be used by a judge with balls to overturn a whole BUNCH'a stuff ... (at least as much as I understand it at the moment).


The Judiciary, not necessarily the supremes, but ordinary judges, especially fed judges, could be a tremendous influence in returning America to her former self.

14 posted on 10/14/2013 10:46:14 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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“Probably the same black hole the Lottery money drops into.”

That’s EXACTLY what I was thinking and going to post. Here in WA State, IIRC (it’s been years ago)all the extra Lottery money was supposed to go primarily to education, yet we still have initiatives for levies for education on a consistent basis. I suspect that WA isn’t the only state in which that is occurring.


15 posted on 10/14/2013 10:47:50 AM PDT by Seattle Conservative (God Bless and protect our troops)
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Easy, in Mississippi it was controlled by the former MS AT Mike Moore and he funneled it into the DNC and the NAACP. Millions went into Democrat coffers here.
16 posted on 10/14/2013 10:48:03 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

How much do ya think the former MS ag gets from his new gig? Think I’ll go fire up a Marlboro light now. Or “Gold” as they are now known.


17 posted on 10/14/2013 10:50:24 AM PDT by rktman (Inergalactic background checks? King hussein you're first up.)
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To: Seattle Conservative

They did the same here In Michigan. Passed the Lottery claiming it would help the Schools.

So the Lottery Revenue went to the School fund but the state racheted back the money they ponied up. So they still claim a shortfall and local Districts continually go for Property Tax increases.


18 posted on 10/14/2013 10:52:53 AM PDT by VRWCarea51
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“Gone to laywers, every one” (and unions)


19 posted on 10/14/2013 10:53:07 AM PDT by bigbob
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Sure seems like the breast cancer awareness outfits got a big boost from someone. Maybe it all went there?


20 posted on 10/14/2013 10:57:54 AM PDT by Phillyred
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