N.C. lottery revenues redirected away from education

Comment #9

Badger — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 02:39:40 GMT

Typical political fibbery. Got the same sort of thing here. THe lottery profits were supposed to go to alleviate Property Taxes, since we have one of the highs in the nation. Instead, they use it for everything else.

Part of our high state tax goes to the Transportation Fund ; roads, etc. Except our governor was put into office by the teachers union and so he owes them. So he raided the transportation fund and transfered several hundred million to the educational fund. You just can't trust th... [ More ]

Comment #8

kmcvay — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:55:58 GMT

My question is how do you go about getting your voice heard? The average person surely has a say somehow? They fought about the lottery money forever in Ohio and I don't think it ever really got resolved. The lottery money always seems to go away and education is not any better for it

Comment #7

MaddMike51 — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:06:35 GMT

Government accountibility.Surely you jest

Comment #6

kmcvay — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 23:56:36 GMT

I actually voted for Perdue because I thought she would support education. I would like to see someone be true to their word. We are in the process of maybe not renewing approximately 1500 jobs of young teachers that moved to out state and pay state property taxes, auto taxes.....How unfair! It makes me sad that the people that get hurt the most are at the building level, which is directly affecting the students. Let's raise class size and lay off teachers, this should be good for future test sc... [ More ]

Comment #5

DC81 — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:03:10 GMT

Typical politicians/government, can't say I'm surprised...

Comment #4

dk1421 — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 02:44:41 GMT

Yeah, my hubby and I couldn't believe it when we read this in the newspaper. It's things like this that make other states that don't have lottery yet, decide not to join in lotteries.

This ticks me off in another level...they always say the money will go to schools, but they never tell you it's not in addition to what the schools are getting now. Let's say if the schools are getting 5 million from the lottery, the state gov't will take their 5 million out and spend it on something else. Which... [ More ]

Comment #3

time*treat — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:03:44 GMT

Politicians promised a program would be used to raise money for a particular purpose, and now they want to use some of that money for other things

Comment #2

Kidzmom — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 07:37:23 GMT

I knew it was coming.

Comment #1

JordanT1021 — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:07:50 GMT

This money will be placed in reserve and only spent if necessary?????????????

that will be the day.. that money will be gone in months... wonder if the nc payouts will start to go down so that the money they transfered can rebuild...

it sounds very crooked...

i wonder if any of that money will be bonses for the state officals.. i know their pockets are getting low!! haha

this might be the end for nc lottery

this story will develop more and more in the upcoming weeks...

N.C. lottery revenues redirected away from education

Lottery Post — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:36:42 GMT

Lottery opponents warned it would happen; they were right

State lawmakers voiced concern today over a transfer of proceeds from lottery-ticket sales from school construction to the state's general fund.

Gov. Bev Perdue's office also clarified details of the transfer today, a day after school systems learned they would lose this quarter's state funding for school construction.

Perdue's office said today that the funding being withheld, $37 million from lottery profits and $5 million from... [ More ]