Michigan latest state to consider selling its lottery

Comment #11

JADELottery — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:18:49 GMT

Money Junkies looking for that Quick Fix High.

Yeah, you always shoot yourself in the foot when you're bleeding from the neck.

Comment #10

rdc137 — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 18:33:59 GMT

Didn't they sell the governor's office, and the state legislature, out years ago

Comment #9

psykomo — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 14:44:56 GMT

ANOTHER>>>>>>Won......

Bites De Dust

Maby the Gov. should consider putting her office up 4-sale.............

one year at a time for the next 4-years at $200 million a YEAR!!!!!!

Let the bidding....BEGAN

Comment #8

fbird — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 13:23:50 GMT

A republican from Novi proposed this.....the governor has said she does not like the idea ..the republican party thinks that some times a private or business could run things better or more efficiently than the gov't ( remember they wanted to do this with the post office ).....but from what I read in the papers this has as much chance as a fart in a windstorm...LOL

Comment #7

DetroitJazzMan — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 07:07:14 GMT

rather than trying to hit the lottery, perhaps I should be researching the companies that are considering buying state lottery programs. In the long run, might be a better investment

Comment #6

hjones — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 02:10:04 GMT

What do Canucks know about American government, anyway. Don't you have your

own stupid liberal problems up there to deal with

Comment #5

Amazing Grace — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 23:34:57 GMT

BONE HEAD GOVERNMENT.

End the war in Iraq.

What effect would that have on the general budget?

Never mind somebodys, Mommy or Daddy Sister,brother,Friend who ever

gets to come home.

Now the schools will suffer,

Its just a money shuffle into the Govts pocket.

Whose idea is it, the people can replace them.

Democrat Gov. Jennifer Granholm is expected to announce plans for dealing with the state's structural deficit in her Feb. 6 State of the State address and Feb. 8 proposal... [ More ]

Comment #4

jim695 — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 23:22:16 GMT

Okay, time out ...

Now, I understand why our evil little gnome of a governor wants to sell our lottery; if he doesn't get rid of it soon, he might be implicated in any criminal charges the Hoosier Lottery eventually generates (and monkeys might fly out of my butt ... Well, they could ...)

But why would Illinois want to sell theirs??? The Illinois Lottery has comparatively little overhead, since they use Iowa's numbers, so what, exactly, would Illinois like to outsource, and how, exactly, w... [ More ]

Comment #3

Bradly_60 — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:52:18 GMT

I saw this in our newspaper today. I highly doubt it will happen here in Michigan though. The Governor said she probably would turn it down. I would rather pay an extra 1% state income tax or something else. $800 millino is a lot to make up but selling the lottery isn't that good of an idea. They are just throwing this around in MI...nothing substantial yet.

Brad

Comment #2

JAP69 — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:00:54 GMT

Cut public spending to make up the short fall.

The gravy train is coming to a screeching halt in this country with spend more tax dollars than they have.

The spending has gone beyond what the tax payers can afford.

Comment #1

liberal47 — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 18:45:53 GMT

Crap! The lottery is the one assset the State of Michigan has in it's favor, and these idiots are considering selling it. Granholm had better reconsider quickly. Her predesessor John Engler sold the all of the revenue producing assets Michigan had at the time, and still left the State deep in the hole. Why enrich OUT OF STATE business interests at the long term expense of the schools. Even the Republicans can spot this as a bad bet.

Michigan latest state to consider selling its lottery

Lottery Post — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:34:56 GMT

'Bad idea' continues its rampage through the USA

Michigan has become the latest in a growing list of states to consider selling off its state lottery in a scheme to fix the state's budget problems.

The move was being discussed at the Capitol as lawmakers and administrators look for ways to deal with an $800 million budget shortfall this year, and possibly even larger hole in the year ahead.

Democrat Gov. Jennifer Granholm is expected to announce plans for dealing with the state's struct... [ More ]