Increased California Lottery payouts spur sales

Comment #12

HaveABall — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:31:45 GMT

Yep, that falls under the unnecessary extravagant category of spending, written of, which some country's state and federal government's undertake -- frittering away difficult to obtain tax payers monies for things that aren't used by the MAJORITY of citizens

Comment #11

mjwinsmith — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:35:19 GMT

Dah! People win more, so they play more, this ain't Rocket science here but pure human nature.

Give me a break, buddy can you spare a dime, LOL.

Michael

Comment #10

victorl3ichiban — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:28:39 GMT

I bought $60 worth of scractcher on the new game and didn't even win a dollar. I guess CA is getting rid of smaller prizes.

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Nino224 — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 07:35:32 GMT

Hear that, Florida???

INCREASE PAYOUTS

Comment #8

dpoly1 — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:12:36 GMT

Because of non-academic spending !

$1,000,000 Football Fields ................ etc

Comment #7

HaveABall — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:13:35 GMT

Why does public schooling need so much money? It has been a failed system for the past century (except for the rather high earning employees -- that's a great gig if one can hold on; surviving sabotaging co-workers/supervisors). The concept: Legally force majority of children to attend school from 5 to 18 years of age, allow the students and teachers to mock majority of students multiple times each day, five days per week. End result: Hopelessness without recourse for at least 13 years of a chil... [ More ]

Comment #6

louise black — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:35:11 GMT

I am reluctant to play any scratch off because it seem to be a waste of your resources.But given the event there is more bait on the hook .I would be more incline to purchase more often.

Comment #5

Todd — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:20:16 GMT

I believe in order to change to fixed payouts California would have to amend the law legislatively. The lottery is currently required by law to have all pari-mutuel payouts. Not that I disagree with what you're saying, but it's something that will require at least as much courage as this current legislation.

Comment #4

ressuccess — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:41:50 GMT

I don't know why Lottery sales and revenues continue to increase in California.

Comment #3

Dollar419 — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:39:58 GMT

Amen to that!!! It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out!! Let's hope they will get wise to the lottery game and allow us to play Powerball.

Comment #2

liberal47 — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:33:22 GMT

It's about time these idiots realized that you have to put bait on a hook to have the fish take notice. Being the last state in the country to raise payouts to it's players is one of the reasons Cali is in such dire financial straits. Now maybe they will add Powerball and amend the paramutuel aspect of their Mega Millions game.

Comment #1

dpoly1 — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:22:21 GMT

I am happy for California .......... but I am hoping for a large payout for me !

God bless the Citizens of the USA ...... not so much the politicians

Increased California Lottery payouts spur sales

Lottery Post — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:03:44 GMT

Californians who play lottery Scratcher games have apparently noticed a new and not unwelcome change in the way some of the games are structured: They win more.

As a result, they're playing more.

Scratcher sales leaped by $55 million in June, the first month that a new law allowed lottery officials to increase the percentage of revenues returned in prize money.

Officials are confident that trend will continue. In its budget for the fiscal year that began July 1, the Lottery Commission p... [ More ]