Sell the Mass. Lottery?

Comment #6

irondoor827 — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 11:35:01 GMT

Smells like politics and big business sleeping in the same bed and having the tax payer foot the bill ....since its the taxpayers who will lose out in the long - run ...and their argument is lets do a casino .????...before the NATIVE AMERICANS get it ....????????

In New york there are several casinos and a state lottery and several race tracks state owned bringing in billions per week ;

casinos pay states and local gov.

Comment #5

Cr4zyH0rs3 — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 00:38:43 GMT

Some one has to pay for CoupeDevalls Toys

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codmander — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 21:22:27 GMT

rollsover allright right into the governor's pocket

Comment #3

Cr4zyH0rs3 — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 04:44:01 GMT

Conmander....Lmfao@that post of your's comon we talking about Taxachusetts here.

Comment #2

BabyJC — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 20:40:44 GMT

Cod - I've always wondered about Mass Cash. Every drawing when there are no winners, which is frequently, shouldn't the money roll over? They don't roll it, so where does it go? It seems logical that there should be higher jackpot prizes for the next drawing. Also, whenever there is multiple winners (say around 8), they end up cutting the jackpot prize to around $67,000 per ticket (instead of 100k). Use that extra money that you don't roll over to honor the 100k prize

Comment #1

codmander — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:04:10 GMT

wont go to any casino mass lottery opens since some lottery games they have are suspect in my opinon.. mass cash and the pick 4 in particular are suspect playin many lottery games somthing about those 2 games isn't right when over time i get more hits on a pick 6/46 and 5/56 than a 5/35 somthings afoul

Sell the Mass. Lottery?

Lottery Post — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:45:00 GMT

Editor's note: The columnist's biased language, such as per-sucker spending was left as-written, since this is an opinion piece.

Steve Bailey

Boston Globe

Massachusetts Treasurer Tim Cahill created a buzz last week when he proposed that the state get into the casino business before the Mashpee Wampanoags beat us to the slots. Lost in the headlines was his analysis of the future of the state's cash cow of a state lottery, which by almost every measure is the envy of the industry. In shor... [ More ]