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Illinois Pays Lottery Winners In IOUs After $30K/Month Budget "Guru" Fails To Produce Deal
Much as Brazil is the poster child for the great EM unwind unfolding across emerging economies from LatAm to AsiaPac, Illinois is in many ways the mascot for America’s state and local government fiscal crisis.
Although well documented before, the state’s financial troubles were thrown into sharp relief in May when, on the heels of a state Supreme Court ruling that struck down a pension reform bid, Moody’s downgraded the city of Chicago to junk.
Since then, there’s been quite a bit written about the state’s pension problem and indeed, Reuters ran a special report earlier this month that outlined the labyrinthine, incestuous character of the state’s various state and local governments.
On Friday, in the latest sign that Illinois’ budget crisis has deepened, Governor Bruce Rauner apparently fired "superstar" budget guru and Laffer disciple Donna Arduin who had been making some $30,000 a month as an economic consultant.
And while Illinois apparently found the cash to fork over six figures to Arduin for just four months of "work", the budget stalemate means hard times for Illinoisans - including, apparently, lottery winners. The Chicago Tribune has more:
After years of struggling financially, Susan Rick thought things were looking up when her boyfriend won $250,000 from the Illinois Lottery last month. She could stop working seven days a week, maybe fix up the house and take a trip to Minnesota to visit her daughter.
But because Illinois lawmakers have not passed a budget, she and her boyfriend, Danny Chasteen, got an IOU from the lottery instead.
"For the first time, we were finally gonna get a break," said Rick, who lives in Oglesby. "And now the Illinois Lottery has kind of messed everything up."
Under state law, the state comptroller must cut the checks for lottery winnings of more than $25,000.
And lottery officials said that because lawmakers have yet to pass a budget, the comptroller's office does not have legal authority to release the funds.
Prizes of $25,000 or less will still be paid at lottery claim centers across the state, and people who win $600 or less can cash in their ticket at the place where they bought it.
But the bigger winners? Out of luck, for now.
While lottery officials could not immediately say how many winners' payments were delayed or provide the total amount of those payoffs, the agency's website lists multiple press releases for winners since the current fiscal year began July 1. Including Chasteen, those winners represent millions of dollars in prizes.
"The lottery is a state agency like many others, and we're obviously affected by the budget situation," Illinois Lottery spokesman Steve Rossi said. "Since the legal authority is not there for the comptroller to disburse payments, those payments are delayed."
Generally speaking, this just serves to underscore the extent to which gross fiscal mismanagement along with the perceived inviolability of pension "implicit contracts" is pushing Illinois further into the financial abyss, but what's particularly interesting about the suspension of lottery payouts is that the state is now effectively in default to its own citizens, something which, if the situation were reversed, would not be tolerated, and on that note, we give the last word to Rick (quoted above) and also to State Rep. Jack Franks:
Rick: "You know what's funny? If we owed the state money, they'd come take it and they don't care whether we have a roof over our head. Our budget wouldn't be a factor. You can't say (to the state), 'Can you wait until I get my budget under control?'"
Franks: "Our government is committing a fraud on the taxpayers, because we're holding ourselves out as selling a good, and we're not — we're not selling anything. The lottery is a contract: I pay my money, and if I win, you're obligated to pay me and you have to pay me timely. It doesn't say if you have money or when you have money."
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Sometimes you lose, even when you are a winner, LOL
Who you gonna sue?
If I were them, I wouldn't pay state taxes on any of that money. I wouldn't pay state taxes on my normal income either. I would send them an IOU.
This reminds of Dumb and Dumber. They spent all that money out of the briefcase. They bought expensive hotel suites, new clothes, and fancy cars. Then after blowing all the money they handed people IOUs. Shows you the level of competence of our governments.
I WON THE LOTTERY!!!!!
and its gone.....
welfare schemes
RIPS
I'll gladly pay you tuesday for a lottery ticket today.
- Skimpy Wimpy
Better take the lump sum. .. a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush!
Of course, I have been hearing about Peter Schiff's dad, Irwin Schiff, who is a political prisoner because he was making it known that IRS is full of crap and there are no tax laws.
So many shades and sections of the FSA it ain't funny.
Of course, this has to do with the Fed.
"Up until 1913 (the year the Fed Reserve came into power), Americans kept all of their earnings. Despite this we still had: schools, roads, vast railroads, streets, streets, subways, the Army, the Navy, and the Marine corps (who managed to win 8 wars).
Tell me again why do We The People need to be extorted???"
End the Fed!!!
Obviously someone clicked the down vote by mistake.
When they first sold the lottery idea to the people, they said the proceeds would go towards “education”.
Now, how much do you think Kingpin Michael Madigan, longtime (since 1983) ruler and speaker of the Illinois whorehouse owes to the state’s pension funds (including >$50 billion to the teachers union)?
Try about $340 billion.. about the size of Greece’s total debt, and that does not count another $50 billion or so of current accounts debt.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/reports/illinois-taxpayers-bear-the-brunt-of-rising-pension-costs/
The lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math.
Gambling is a tax on ignorance. Back when I used to take the kids for a ride down to the shore in CT, we would pass Foxwoods. I would tell them, "That's the biggest casino in the world. It was paid for by all the losers".
The Lottery is tax for stupid people who are ignorant of the concept of a nation based on laws (as opposed to dictat).
At least the lottery is voluntary. the CA lottery was foisted upon califorikans onder the guise the 50% would be aplied to edewkayshun. 20+ years later, edewkayshun is bankrupt, and worse than ever.
"When they first sold the lottery idea to the people, they said the proceeds would go towards “education”."
Yes, the "education" BS (first started in '64 by NH), as best explained by (10 minute mark):
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: The Lottery (HBO)That must have been Lois Lerner
You didn't delete that....
There's a dipshit on every thread.
@realmoney, yes end the fed!
Before 1913 there was also no IRS.
The fed creates currency in the form of tax payer debt with an IOU that they know they cannot pay.
Repeal the Sixteenth.
http://www.thelawthatneverwas.com/defects.aspx
The scam goes to the very base of each individual's 'slave status'. Very worthwhile viewing here on how the 'legal name' scam works. Compelling research:
Human Rights Defenders League of Canada
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKTn5HKfYakh93oR4T4T_Qw/playlists
Servant King
http://servantking.info/
Pick a state building and start a foreclosure proceeding.
Better still, go to a state police barracks and tell them you'll settle for $255,000 in 5.56 ammo.
Along my line of thought...
But in a state long dominated by statists finding a judge willing to issue any kind of forfeiture ruling is likely near impossible.
If the other way around, no problem, they would crush an individual. The State trumps individuals. It's shocking how many people fail to see that.
Damned sheep!!!
FRANKS FOR PRESIDENT!!!
Pity & too bad he would have mysterious nail gun accident if he ran.
Barney?
Oscar Meyer
Irwin Schiff has a lot of things he believes are true. However, his beliefs collided with the beliefs of Washington, D.C., and he lost.
Being right is relative.
Relative to how many men with gun are willing to commit murder for you?
Speaking, er... legally, Irwin Schiff may be correct.
HOWEVER, if the prosecutor, judge, and US marshalls all think that there are tax laws, then there ARE tax laws.
Something about a "social contract", I hear....
Have you ever seen, or asked for, your counterpart to that'social contract', let alone one with a wet-ink signature? Have you asked for your counterpart or certified copy?
They just got an advance lesson in counterparty risk ahead of the general public.
Start foreclosure on the State Capital Building.
Is Illinois still selling lottery tickets? Obviously that money isn't going to lottery winners, as it should be.
Since lottery proceeds "benefit the children", sue "the children" for fraud.
Her boyfriend wins and the bitch has it spent pronto but holy crap batman, the state lotteries are pennyless to pay.
Is everyone a fucking crook or on the take .. Good luck America, you deserve someone like Hillary to show you how to screw the pooch
Just think of Hillary naked. Nobody deserves a Hillary.
Send them THE IOU that was given to them, and let them know that you want the change back. :-) Please.
Hmmm, wonder what interest is paid on that IOU?
IRS pays it if over 90 days.
Damn that might actually work. If you overpay taxes, you get a refund as a matter of routine right? Someone should contact that lady...
PS it would require some clever structuring I guess
That's not how defrauding citizens of your state works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CraFZDtvreo
This one's for $285,000. Ya might wanna hold on to that one
I'd bet that taxes on a 250k win are taken out right off the top.
"Fsck you, pay me!"
I think you're on to something there.
Win the lottery, tell the state 'I'll take my winnings out of future state tax payments for the next forty or so years.' Do not contact me. Fuck you.
As winners mount up, how long will the ponzie scheme continue?
Hold on, let me tell you this State of Commiefornia story.
We were owed fuel tax refunds dating back to 2013. State of Commiefornia sat on them. They said we misreported. (I'm the most conservative controller ever.) Ao we get audited.
End result, Commiefornia owes us about $10k more. They send a check for $53k, andother $10k for 2015, through Second Quaqrter. I ask about interest due on the $53K...they're no longer paying interest on fuel tax refunds.
They're no longer paying interest on a lot of debts they owe.
You go right ahead and invest in Commiefornia Municipal Bonds...I'll just sit in the corner and chuckle.
I'm not lying, got our check for the last two years refunds for $53K on Friday. The 2Q refunds should show up this week.
Fucking Commiefornia....they will fuck you every chance they get. And if your from out of State...what the fuck are you thinking doing business here?!
California. It used to be a beautiful place and a pleasant state of mind. Now, it's a virulent fatal disease.
Every time I see a vehicle with CA plates on the interstate, I always hope they are just passing through. I've seen firsthand what happens when Californians descend on a place like locusts.
Go find the official in charge of the lottery and break his leg.
In the old days thats what happened when your numbers guy did not pay.
"Tyrone Shoelaces" - An absolute classic handle. +1000!!
Of course if you were to mess with their pensions, they'll be quick to reference the law.
I would not fuck with this woman.
I had to take a second look.
Give that free-stuffin Fräulein a wide birth.She has a boyfriend?
Do you mean, 'fuck' with her, or 'fuck with' her?
Never mind...
Maybe with the trillions stolen by Wall Street and the MIC, they can kick in some $$
States are going bankrupt due to pension obligations and skyrocketing medical costs in the land of the free.
The most bankrupt is the US government with a debt of $210 trillion
Kotlikoff says, “I told them the real (2014) deficit was $5 trillion, not the $500 billion or $300 billion or whatever it was announced to be this year. Almost all the liabilities of the government are being kept off the books by bogus accounting. . . . The government is 58% underfinanced . . . . Social Security is 33% underfinanced . . . . So, the entire government enterprise is in worse fiscal shape than Social Security is, but they are both in terrible shape.” So, how much is America on the hook for in the future? Kotlikoff contends, “If you take all the expenditures that the government is expected to make, as projected by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), all the spending on defense, repairing the roads, paying for the Supreme Court Justices’ salaries, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, welfare, everything and take all those expenditures into the future . . . and compare that to all the taxes that are projected to come in, and the difference is $210 trillion. That’s the fiscal gap. That’s our true debt.”
http://usawatchdog.com/financial-system-will-collapse-just-a-matter-of-w...
Fiat is like the anesthetic in a mosquito's saliva.
It permits the parasite to drain you painlessly, but you still lose blood and the itch will linger (not to mention the deadly diseases you (or your economy) may contract).
I'm stealing your metaphor.
They are making it up in volume
First they came for the lottery winners...
The lottery, like elections, like the stock market, like libor rates, like the price of gold/silver, etc. is fixed.
No friend. This one is broken.
Wait, you mean the state run lottery system is just another ponzi scheme, there is no actual "pool of money" the players are gambling on to win?
Color me fucking shocked...lmao!
Exactly the same as every last single tax in CA. Some destined to go into the General Fund (or whatever the name) many others "dedicated solely to the funding of choose your thing".
Then a short while later, the state moves to borrow, transfer, etc., all the different monies to pay for whatever the fuck they like in spite of promising it for something else.
All the buck go into the Great Unaccountable General Fund
I mean there are charitable monies collected via the state that never made it past the General Fund.
Seriously.
A big part of the deficit is paying welfare benefits to illegals. The other is to all those govt. employees. If you want to get steamed, go to the website Transparent California and take a gander at what they are paying govt. employees in salaries, pensions, etc. http://transparentcalifornia.com/
Red and green sticker ohv program.
Strait to the general fu(CKING)nd.
It probably all goes straight into the coffers of the CCCP (Chicago Communist Cocksuckers Party): All your winnings are belong to us.
I'm willing to bet ( har har ) that there is a big pool of money: it is just being with-held under the excuse that it is not specifically segregated: 'it's part of the general budget' or what have you.
( How you 'budget' for when somebody is going to win a purportedly random drawing, well...).
The State of Illinois is Corzining. The lotto funds are 'commingled'.
Remember when the mafia used to run numbers?
At least they paid..
The Illinois state run mafia outright defrauds its winners. Don't forget to pay taxes on your "winnings."
Soon we'll all get notices in the mail saying we won state lotteries. A week later we get an IOU, then we get the tax bill. It won't be Nigerian scammers, it will be the government scamming its citizens.
That was my first thought. The mob numbers racket paid up, on time, in cash, no taxes.
The government? They lie to you that is it for education [the children] and they advertise the new "legal" numbers racket, and then hand you an IOU.
Government is the biggest, nastiest, most corrupt mob there ever was.
Third world America, coming soon to your town......
Congratulations, you've received a free (non-transferrable, non-revokable) membership in the third world country of the month club.
Your shipments of third world experiences will arrive around the first of each month.
Enjoy!
removing 90% of the Government would probably set off an ecomomic boost like the world has never seen.
Got that right but the sling shot effect would snap our necks
Illinois is officially third world.
Shit man, I've never heard of anything like this happening even in the Third World!
so....the lottery income is not available for the lottery winner? WTF are they doing with all those 7-11 receipts?
Well they obviously spend the receipts on stuff other than funding the payouts, no?
Called a Ponzi
Isn't that illegal?
Only if you're not part of the Club.
Clearly, paying $30,000/month to assholes that are in the loop.
We IOU'ed some folks
"We IOU'ed some lottery winners"
I'll fix it for you.
"We IOU'ed some lottery Folks winners. :-)
Sorry Goy Lotttery Winner. You have just been Rahm by the Tribe. Heads they win. Tails you lose. And yet the prole still don't storm the Elite homes. Home of the Pussies.
Rahmmed by the Tribe. As in BOHICA?
Mayswell not check the lottery tickets in my wallet. That's ok I still have some chips from Binions Casino too. I'll put them in my souvenir drawer.
Wow. Obamba consigliori destroys Chicago. And, Obama renames Mt McKinley an African word that means: "Eat s**t, cracker".
I live in Illinois and wonder if now would be the time to have everyone in the state just mail their representatives a bullet. ...Just wrap up a single round and mail it.
Wonder if the point would be taken.
Nail gun nail would be cheaper than the bullet. That saves the taxpayer a couple cents.
Just don't leave a return address.
Send them via airmail, at 1400 fps.....
Just sue the CRIMINALS!!...May just get double!
Well I understand that the state of Illinois maybe a little Short on funds.
start taking state property as collateral on the debt i.e. police cars, log off parks and confiscate contents of schools, museums etc.
At least it is not an iou for an iou.
Hey, you be quiet! Don't give them any ideas!
You mean like the SS lockbox
Keep voting democrat!
Jesus H. Motherfucking Christ.
These no good motherfuckers legalize gambling, give themselves the monopoly, tax your fucking winnings, and now this?
By magnitudes, I'd rather deal with the Mob.
Even the fucking Mob would not pull this shit. Heads would be blown off.
Fuck government at every level.
No hair dye in prison apparently.
https://cbschicago.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/rod-blagojevich-prison-1.jpg
"Heads would be blown off. "
& the right thing to do IS ???
Maybe they should talk to the mob and make.a.deal to split the.winnings if they take it out of the asses....um, I mean, collect their rightful winnings from the lottery commisioners.
Looks like some folks aren't going to buy lottery tickets for a while. I note they can take in the money without a budget but they can't payout. Seems to me the legislature could pass an immediate bill to pay lottery winners. That is if they want to.
To the people of Ill. I suggest you don't buy any lottery tickets until the State pays on its contractual obligation. If no one bought tickets you can bet they will pay right away.
Yup. And when the people stop buying tickets, that's a serious loss of revenue. Pay heed bankers. That's how it works with currency too.
They'll probably just go Cyprus and start robbing bank accounts. You need the suckers to buy tickets, so everyone else does not have to pay taxes.
Time to start paying taxes with IOU's
Already do..FRN debt.
One time payout Bitchez! I don't care how jacked on taxes I get, I'll make up for it by making prudent investments over the long term.
I'd buy a used G-5 and store bullion in the cargo hold, before I'd trust the Illinois State Lottery to make good on my long term lottery disbursements.
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The IRS will probably send her the tax bill for their share before there is a chance she will get paid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XGAmPRxV48
Not to worry, J G Wentworth has her, um, back. 6 cents on the dollar. (Special Illinois deal)
Get the cheque or not, sounds like the poor bastard won't see a penny anyway. Ol' Suz has big plans for his winnings!
AWALT (All women are like that)
anyone who downvotes this is a woman
AAWALT (All AMERICAN women are like that)
there. fixed it for you.
it just effing took me one divorce, 45 years and coutless beotch girlfriends to finally wake up and say, WTF do I want with another Americna Beotch who is soom to be fat and divorce my ass AGAIN anyway?
Off shoring the wife was the best Effing decision of my entire life.
Single men, there ARE women who will treat you with love and respect, just not ones born and raised in the ole USA anymore.
Some people are just not winners in the lottery of life.
Mongo only pawn in game of life.
IF those people were to fall into arrears on their income taxes or property taxes for whatever reason the same bureaucrats would methodically destroy them all the while shrugging and saying: 'It's my job to enforce the law.'
REMINDER
The Free Shit Army always wins.
no - the "govt" always wins - until the guillotines roll - roll that beautiful guillotiine footage
I owned a business and had a gov contract. I was big enough where I had to pay my taxes monthly. I was late by a single day and had a $800 late fee on my monthly taxes....at the same time in 2009 my governemnt contract was 6 months and $200K behind on payments and they said "Look on the bright side, you can charge us 2% yearly interest".
FUCKERS.
Yeah.
THEY TOLD YOU how much interest you could charge them.
haha! whachagonnado? haha! revolt motherfucker - or be a fucking pussy - yes, I'm in a "mood" tonight - but hey, why not
Been revolting for a few years now, I fired all the employees in 2011, sold off the customer base, liquidated all the machinery (small manufacturing company), cashed out and called it quits.
I now reside on some property in the middle of nowhere, homestead with the wife and 3 kids (She is still a Regional Director over 32 hospitalsand still leaves the place...outside of heading to Home Depot and Tractor Supply I do not leave here). I am still only 46 yrs old and I will never go back to work....Lost 30lbs by workinn my ass off daily with a chainsaw, garden, chickens, honey bees, fresh water, guns, ammo, pm's. I am mother fucking dug in like a tick on a dog. I'm an X- combat soldier to boot...fuckum'.
Yep. I'm just like you. The only thing we have to worry about now is them godddamn revenoors.
Awesome.
Any property for sale next to you?
You're like the ZH mascot or something else!
+1000.Gone Galt. We should all do likewiase, even if it take years to detach officially.
I'm just a few steps behind you. no more employees, bought a rural place in foreclosure in 2013 in need of TLC for very cheap. We just passed the 50% paid off mark and refinanced to a 5 year note.
56 payments to go. then just annual property taxes of $800.
6 foot high fenced the entire place plus barbed wire and an 8 foot gate. Been getting really good with a pick axe planting all manner of fruit and nut trees and berry shrubs. Bee keeping next, chickens to follow. we picked 50 lbs of cherries from our land last year, bushels of plums and could not process a remaining 60 gallon trash can full of apples fast enough before they had to go to compost.
Have a small biz and still have to leave the compund for clients and such but work from home 90%. two people help my remotely via email so no employees.
Ex Infantry guy also, so know just a little about such and properly equipped and training some folks worth trusting.
and yes the place next to me is coming avaiable via slow motion foreclosure. would love to have a like minded sort nearby.
we are 20 miles out from any town with a Home Depot in the Oregon Mountains.
I went from living the McMansion lifestyle in a town that was "the wealthiest town in the U.S based on cost of living in 2011" (30K residents and an average family income of $185K) to moving 30 miles from it to the "sticks" among all the farmers and country folk.
I was raised up in the 70's/80's "in the country" by a vietnam vet combat soldier with the infamous "Big Red 1". He turned me loose at the age of 12 with a gun to hunt and learn to fend for myself. I was a "modern day Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn" as I had 15K acres of National Forest that bordered our property to hunt on and roam.
I obtained an Engineering degree after a 3yr stint in the Army (I am a 1st Gulf War combat vet and was part of 7th Corp), chased the dream after that and started a business when I was 29. My wife and I could afford anything we wanted in life (within reason) and one day it hit me and I said "What have you become", so I decided that I didn't need it "all" and got back to my roots. I can say that I am happier now than I have ever been.
I only have 3 neighbors within a mile in any direction and the first thing within a week of buying this place i had to accomplish was to crack off around 2000 rounds with my family one eve to let anyone within "ear shot" know who I was. I later met every single one of them and they all said something to the tune of "It's nice to have a guy like you in the community with yor background"....they are on the same page.
Closest neighbor has two nice BMW's setting by his entry gate to his place with weeds growing up around them, both cars are "newer" but I have yet to see them move. They have chickens, goats, pigs, etc and it's nice to see their 3 young kids running around with dirty faces in their underwear out in the yard with no shoes and "being kids" when we drive by...I do not know their entire story but they obviously "checked out" like us.
Other neighbor is 91 years old, she has 500 acres of mixed woods/pasture/hills with 40 goats and 50 head of beef cattle. She is "old school" and still uses water from her spring to provide all she needs for her house and farm. She obtained an engineering degree from UT nearly 70 years ago but never left her "family farm" that she inherited.
Other neighbor (brother to the sister with 500 acres) owns 200+ acres and has a saw mill. He's 78 and in great shape, runs the mill by himself. We have an agreement that if any of my marketable timber comes down in a storm on my place and can go up on his mill that I give it to him and in return he provides me with the lumber that he can not market for free to build my sheds/pole barns with. I also have an unlimited supply of wood from him for burning for fuel.
We have a "guest house" and our main place is a western red cedar 2800 sqft place that is breathtakingly beautiful (Looks like a log cabin but is cedar sided). Guest house is only 900 sqft and is my canning/off grid food storage place and is our "go to" if we should lose electric as it set up to not rely on any outside services.
Although I still have a ways to go, I am getting there...still have a lot to learn but I am years ahead of "the masses". I'd say that over the past 2 years most of my "large purhcases" have been through craigslist. I'd say I have spent $50K in cash in the last year on craigslist for things i need/require (tractor, solar, chickens, bees, pumps, generators, supplies, etc) and refuse to buy new and pay the sales taxes and be a part of the typical consumerism participation.
I've got 2 miltary buddies within 200-250 miles and 2 other good friends that will come with their families if they can find their way and need to. I can not defend it alone so I need their help, I trust these 4 men with not only my life but likewise with my family members life.
I act like I am the craziest mother fucker around...and maybe I just am.
Next time you get excess dehydrate them, solar concentrator (lots of plans online) or elec, or make cider!
dupe
Damd was just back in Oregon in August for vacay...still miss living there, even if last time was back in 1998. woud love to get back there and do the same as you but on the wage-earner treadmill with 4 yrs to go to be mainly debt free. still paying rent in North Dalota.
"wife and 3 kids (She is still a Regional Director over 32 hospitalsa"
How is this going galt?
You are a weak male, your kids are losers, and your wife is a feminist working for the pharmaceutical industrial complex?
Talk about a loser.
haha! dumb fuckers think the "govt" is going to do "the right thing" - hahahahahahahaha!!!!! dumbfucks !!!! go govt go! fuck the people!!!!
All money is an IOU anyway created out of thin air, at interest, by private banks in order to gain control over the economy. This is perhaps the best-kept open secret there is, as most people still believe in the farce of "getting out of debt" and "balancing the budget". It's not a possibility under the current monetary system.
Yes, over less than a hundred years the FedRes has transformed money [an IOU] redeemable in gold or silver into an IOU redeemable in IOUs.
Figure that one out.
Annnd it's gone> { Calpers hedged their pensions against the Illinois Toll Road System?}
Just having some fun. You can see how the derivatives cycle got started.
The Ojibwe are giving the state some hell. I am on their side in this case. A treaty is a treaty. A deal is a deal and you can't crawfish it. The Ojibwe are fighting back again and I love it. I really love the comment "We were ALL in that canoe".
http://www.startribune.com/indian-ricers-back-protesting-on-hole-in-the-day-lake/323222791/
Pennsylvania next?
Pennsylvania is the only state that dedicates all lottery proceeds to programs that benefit senior citizens.
It's administered privately, as well, so this should never be the case in PA.
http://www.ifo.state.pa.us/getfile.cfm?file=/resources/PDF/SR2014-01.pdf
Seriously?
Senior fucking citizens? How about children instead?
If you ran a farm like that, caring for the old and dying crops instead of protecting the sprouts, you'd have a barren wasteland in you'd no time and starve to death choking on dust.
PA has a plethora of programs to benefit children as well, but those are paid out of taxes and child support.
There is, however, no procedure to check with the guardian of said child that the benefits are actually spent on the child.
At least the seniors benefit from those who gamble on the lottery, rather than it going to a benefitting baby momma squirting out more reasons for increased benefits.
Socialism sucks.
Sprouts can't vote.
You nailed it, the American way....
Fuck those who can't vote.
Squid
If voting matters it wouldn't be legal.
In the old days they would have taken the comptroller (or perhaps members of the legislature) hostage and started mailing back body parts until the winnings were paid.
The "old days" just may make a roaring comeback soon!
Nobodies gonna do shit. Same as it ever was.
How much you wanna bet if the state of Illinois doesn't pay off this IOU before Jan 1, the state still wants income tax from the IOU? Maybe even charge people penalites and interest for not coming up with the taxes by Apr 15th?
I don't want to bet.
Do you want that in a lump sum or monthly payment IOU if you win?