Welfare/child support used to buy winning lottery ticket

[Ronin Truth]

What twists your knickers, and mine, is that the welfare money should have went towards...welfare. Even if it was just a $2 lottery ticket. I don't really consider it any different than those that used their EBT cards at casinos and strip clubs.

The "system" exists to be abused.

 

[jmdrake]

Well, look at it this way:

She's not on welfare anymore.

LOL. True. And she'll have to pay a lot of it back in taxes.

 

[jmdrake]

Very true.

I suppose "winning" should count for earning just so long as one doesn't look at the source of the monies wagered..

For some reason this just twists my knickers...


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I'm betting this fine person is still cashing the checks from child support too...

That depends on the law of the state. In my state child support is in part calculated based on the income of both parents. Women in some circumstances can be ordered to pay child support to men. I could have had my ex pay me child support but I didn't want that.

 

[jmdrake]

Okay. Here's my view. As long as the state isn't going to be too particular about who buys the tickets there's not sense in being concerned about who wins the money. I heard the other day that in my state if you win the lottery but you are a felon you aren't allowed to collect the money. What kind of sense does that make? I know nobody has proposed any new laws in this thread, but I could imagine someone passing a "If you win the lottery and you are on welfare you can't get the money" law. If someone on welfare happens to buy a bitcoin and it goes through the roof what then?

 

[JK/SEA]

glad she won.

 

[Christian Liberty]

I'm not really bothered by this.

I'm bothered by the system in general, mind you. But, if we must have a welfare system, the least bad thing to do is at least have it just be a cash transfer, rather than also a means of restricting liberty.

Negative income tax, while not "good", is the best form of welfare. You get a lump sum. If you use it badly, its on you. The government doesn't tell you how to spend it.

Getting too upset about this, IMHO, is actually playing into the system's hands. We've all been hurt by this system, but we should be far more upset with the government that created it than with this woman.

 

[Christian Liberty]

Also, split the winnings with WHO, exactly?

The entire USA? What would be the point of that?

If it had been a smaller number of people who had been supporting her, maybe. But seriously. I wouldn't get upset over this.

 

[AuH20]

glad she won.

Agreed. But let's hope it's not all gone in 5 years.

 

[presence]

Agreed. But let's hope it's not all gone in 5 years.

rofl, I give it 3

Security staff now accompanies her everywhere, which she said is taking some getting used to. At the news conference Monday, she was flanked by a lawyer and a financial adviser.

 

[oyarde]

Okay. Here's my view. As long as the state isn't going to be too particular about who buys the tickets there's not sense in being concerned about who wins the money. I heard the other day that in my state if you win the lottery but you are a felon you aren't allowed to collect the money. What kind of sense does that make? I know nobody has proposed any new laws in this thread, but I could imagine someone passing a "If you win the lottery and you are on welfare you can't get the money" law. If someone on welfare happens to buy a bitcoin and it goes through the roof what then?

Well , , when bitcoin goes to a million , they can pay back the welfare .

 

[tod evans]

Also, split the winnings with WHO, exactly?

The entire USA? What would be the point of that?

If it had been a smaller number of people who had been supporting her, maybe. But seriously. I wouldn't get upset over this.

You choose to focus on only the government welfare program, there's at least 1 ex whose money she's been soaking up like a sponge and from the article I gather that folks at her church have been chipping in too. Her mother is mentioned but there's no mention of what her role has been up to this point.

My post about settling up before tithing made no mention of giving anything to government or even the taxpayers;

I agree the lottery is a money extracting scheme for government, it just irked me to read an article trumpeting the virtues of this particular "winner"...

The sentence about how she intends to tithe a portion to her church yet no mention of the folks who have literally supported her is particularly offensive to me. Were I her Pastor, instead of rubbing my mits together in glee I'd be advising her to settle up before tithing....But that's just me.