Illinois lottery defers paying jackpots

It is not surprising that Illinois is the first State to confront this financial shortfall. DonDiego wonders which State will be next:



Appalachia is surprisingly green on the map, so DonDiego is likely to receive the benefits of his lottery winnings, . . . if any.

Note the states with dire trouble....

IL
CA
NY
MA
CT
NJ

figures...

When they did the advertising for voters to vote in the California Lottery, they made it about education and that it is for the children.

While a considerable money has gone to California schools, it has gone to replace money that would have come from other sources. It has done nothing to supplement school spending.

Cali doesn't even have a rainy day fund.... They have a very large bucket and will take anything they can from the people.....

Illinois never had a problem paying their big lottery winners until.........

the low info/low iq voters elected a Republican governor into the Springfield mansion.

It is Bruce Rauner, and no one else, who issued the directive to hold for ransom the lottery winnings of 25k (or 35k....seems to be a bit of confusion on the matter of the minimum dollar amount) or higher.

There is an elderly couple just down the street from me.......that is being robbed of $400,000 by the criminal Rauner. They won (think it was the Little Lotto jackpot....5 numbers) fair and square, and Rauner is trying to steal it from them.

Typical Republican manuever tho. Steal from the poor, give to the rich. Rinse and repeat over and over and over.

Rauner is scum. Pure and simple scum. I shit turds that have more morals than he does. May there be a special place in hell reserved for him. Perhaps a cell in Terra Haute is in his near future.

Wow. According to marcisdave, an Illinois governor can solely hold up the lottery. Did you shine your jack boots yet Marcis?

Dang. I betcha that the chicago bookies move in to political jobs before too long so they can legally welsh on bets.

And all this time I thought the Illinois Lotto was started to fund a wing in the Illinois State Prisons for Governors (both Republicans and Democrats)......learn something new every day.

Rauner is the only adult in the room in Illinois.....a budget hopeless land headed for fiscal disaster. Thank you Michael Madigan.

It often requires a "crisis" to make painful decisions. Illinois has many financial problems - primarily due to irrational pension promises that cannot be met (like 3% increases per year for life). This is no crisis if people who won millions have to wait a few weeks to get their annual payments.

that is a very interesting map, thx for posting it dondiego. I did not realize that KY was in such bad shape. or that FL was in such good shape, but otherwise not too may surprises jumped out at me.