Illinois’s budget process (or rather, a lack of one that most adults would recognize) has been a joke for decades and they STILL can’t get it right. And now this:
Powerball, Mega Millions to drop Illinois due to state’s budget crisis
The popular Powerball lottery and Mega Millions games will drop Illinois at the end of June without a budget agreement, Illinois Lottery officials said Thursday. Concern over the state’s fiscal condition prompted the Multi-State Lottery Association to drop Powerball in Illinois, according to internal Illinois Lottery communications obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times.
…A spokesman for the Multi-State Lottery Association said the group “is focused on protecting the integrity of its games and the experience of its players.”
Concern? Sure is – concern that Illinois will take in the ticket payments but can’t pay out the willings? Without a budget in place, Illinois has no way to give the lucky lottery winners their prizes. The Association is fearful that Illinois would give the game a bad reputation. Illinois, on the other hand?
You DO understand what happens to anyone in the private sector that attempts that, right? Taking money in and it “disappears”? I would ask the Democrat dominated Legislature (and until this latest Republican Gov, Dem Guv’s as well) this question:
Why didn’t you drop the gaming in a voluntarily, open, and transparent way honestly saying “we won’t do that to our citizens?”
Nope, they didn’t. Citizens ought to be asking “do I want to live in a State that would screw me over and pay me? What ELSE are they doing to me?”
(H/T: Chicago Sun-Times)
