Pfffffttt!
"Lottery to stop doling out free sports tickets; Incentive deal for retailers too generous, Cahill says" by Donovan Slack, Globe Staff | September 24, 2008
State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill is scrapping a multimillion-dollar incentive program that rewarded lottery retailers with free sports tickets, deciding that it had become excessively generous because of the hefty prices tickets command on the resale market.
Cahill's decision follows a Globe story in May that detailed how the lottery paid millions of dollars in sponsorship deals to teams and received thousands of prized tickets in return.
Is that really the BEST USE of the taxpayer's money?
BUYING SPORTS TICKETS so the LOOTERS can go to the GAMES?!!!!
The lottery used the tickets to reward high-performing retailers, but it also distributed them to lottery officials, their family members, and friends, the Globe story said.
This fucking state!!!
The lottery's record-keeping was so poor, however, that it was impossible to determine how many tickets were used by employees and their relatives.
Gee, what a COINKYDINK, huh? Into the harbor with 'em!!!!!!!!!
The lottery also spent at least $1.2 million to purchase tickets to sporting events for the retailers.
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Yup, but we gotta keep that income tax because otherwise you won't be getting any services from the state! What a crock of horse shit!!!!
In the past -- in my former life I was a brainwashed lefty -- I have voted to keep the state income tax , but NOT THIS YEAR!!!!!!!!!!
The reason being that it seems to be no problem for the lying looters of state government to hand out money to rich Hollywood folk, Wall Street, corporate and lottery favorites, golf courses, overpriced contracts to favored clients, primo tickets to the games, or TAXPAYER BAILOUTS for BANKS!!!!Also see: The Big Pit
