Crazy idea for city, state, and nation lottos in the US.

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savagegoose — Sat, 12 Sep 2015 00:20:47 GMT

yeah soulds like a tax lotto, well using pops of the state as basis for the draw, well under a tax lotto eveyone has 1 entry for ea $1 paid in taxes, but that would fail as it requres gove to give something back. this is a from choice lotto and entry is based on voluntary payment. as earlier reply stated it depends on who gets the power from such a system. i like the idea. you could annualy change the matrix based on pop stats and yea online it would save on paper work

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Tialuvslotto — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 11:36:38 GMT

City lotto might be a good way to increase the number of people paying their taxes on time. Every on-time payment gets entered into the draw for $1M (or whatever is appropriate for the size of the city). Where I live we have to pay tax installments every 3 months, so that would be 4 chances a year to win.

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BobP — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 13:11:39 GMT

Because under everything else, it is always about power. Same reason we don't merge local fire departments and police or local goverments. Anyone with even a taste of power is not willing to give it up. Nor would I expect lottery directors to give up their fat paychecks either.

Not impossible to add another layer of lottery like the current multi-state games, so long as everyone gets to keep their phoney baloney jobs.

BobP

Crazy idea for city, state, and nation lottos in the US.

GoogilyMoogily — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:46:10 GMT

I've had this thought sloshing around in my noggin for a while. Hoping to plant the seed of an idea into the head of all the lottery officials out there. It's just a crazy idea afterall.

My analogy is that all the multi-state lottos are like a 3rd party candidates to each other. They are competing against each other and thus keeping the jackpots low. That's my theory. They should join. There should be one nation wide lotto, available in all the states that currently have lottos anyway. This r... [ More ]