Thread: No Lottery Tickets for Welfare Recipients

But we don't know that that $1 lotto ticket means a child is starving?

Originally Posted by Potter75

When I say that they get high and mighty I mean that they seem to have a really vested feeling of "THEIR TAX DOLLARS" going to help these people.

In my experience, people who get irrationally upset about their tax dollars don't pay any (as they get it all back in a refund).

Originally Posted by blather

In my experience, people who get irrationally upset about their tax dollars don't pay any (as they get it all back in a refund).

Exactly- this is what I was trying to say, I'm just long winded.

Originally Posted by blather

In my experience, people who get irrationally upset about their tax dollars don't pay any (as they get it all back in a refund).

You would be wrong. Its funny that you sit there and say not to generalize people and then you generalize another group of people.

How can you say her experience is wrong unless you are calling her (and me) liars? I'm not saying what you witnessed is wrong or that you are a liar. Simply saying that what you witnessed is even close to a majority of the people on assistance. I agree with blather and have witnessed and experienced the same thing. I see a pattern, is all.

Originally Posted by Potter75

How can you say her experience is wrong unless you are calling her (and me) liars? I'm not saying what you witnessed is wrong or that you are a liar. Simply saying that what you witnessed is even close to a majority of the people on assistance. I agree with blather and have witnessed and experienced the same thing. I see a pattern, is all.

Thats not what she said. She said that people that care how their tax dollars are being spent don't pay taxes. I pay taxes AND I care how they are spent.

No, that isn't what she said. She said irrationally upset. I get super upset about how much we pay in taxes (the percentage). I get so frustrated by the waste I see firsthand in our defense budget. I get so frustrated at our education spending. I don't get irrationally upset (to, say, the point of calling entire groups of other american citizens "dumb losers") about someone spending $1 on a lotto ticket.

Originally Posted by Potter75

I don't get irrationally upset (to, say, the point of calling entire groups of other american citizens "dumb losers") about someone spending $1 on a lotto ticket.

I don't think that qualifies as irrationally upset either.

Right, thats probably the crux of our disagreement in this debate. Its a buck. Calling anyone those rather hideous names over a dollar is irrational to me. It places irrational value on a dollar vs a human. I have enough bucks that I just can't get that worked up over it.

Originally Posted by Potter75

Right, thats probably the crux of our disagreement in this debate. Its a buck. Calling anyone those rather hideous names over a dollar is irrational to me. It places irrational value on a dollar vs a human. I have enough bucks that I just can't get that worked up over it.

How do you know it's just $1? They can just as easily spend their whole check on lottery tickets as $1.