Newspaper analyzes Fla. Lottery education funding

Comment #5

mountainman — Sun, 06 May 2007 10:13:57 GMT

Well, Rush Limbaugh does live in Palm Beach; enough said there. Like ya'll said, the lottery does not determine the allocation, the state does in the capital building.

Comment #4

BobP — Fri, 04 May 2007 05:56:59 GMT

I suspect this crappy article was just given a thousand times the audience it had published in a small town paper.

From my point of view Florida made a mistake using the lottery revenue for education replacement funding instead of improving education with collage scholarships like Georgia did.

There is no question gambling pulls money out of the local economy. Five dollars spent on gambling is five dollars not spent on fast food and suger snacks.

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Comment #3

duckman — Tue, 01 May 2007 03:53:46 GMT

The lottery makes the money. Where the money goes is decided on the legislature and in some cases the Department of Education.

Whether it is an enhancement or replacement of funds is out of the lottery's control...

Comment #2

Littleoldlady — Tue, 01 May 2007 01:49:55 GMT

I am not sure what goes on in Florida as far as education expenses go but my property tax (Fla) went up double from one to the next much of it was supposedly for education..I cring to see what it will be this year. The lottery money is going somewhere and Palm Beach County is not a poor county..so if they are consistently in the top 10 as far as lottery allocations go and it is not enough, then maybe it is about time some of those millionaires help to pay for their child's education.

Comment #1

Drivedabizness — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:54:12 GMT

I (as usual) agree with Todd.

The author assumedly posseses some measure of college-level eduaction, but does not show evidence of critical thinking skills. Heck - some of the numbers quoted don't even add up.

The article is full of unproven canards... and if you don't like the way the lottery performs, analyze lottery performance in a responsible way. I always cringe when critics fault the lottery for how dollars are distributed when the lottery has no say in how that is done.

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Newspaper analyzes Fla. Lottery education funding

Lottery Post — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:39:12 GMT

Editor: This highly biased newspaper article was published in Boca Raton News on Friday, April 27. It is presented here to educate lottery players about an unfortunately common form of so-called analysis , which in reality is nothing more than slanted opinions of certain journalists, who seek only the information that will support their narrow agenda.

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State run lotteries generate in excess of $50 billion a year nationwide.

State run lotteries are fond of saying how much of