RANT: A tax on the poor

Friday, October 18, 2024

https://nypost.com/2024/10/08/us-news/mega-millions-ticket-price-more-than-doubling-to-5/

Mega Millions ticket price more than doubling to $5 — with promise of bigger jackpots and higher odds
By Allie Griffin 
Published Oct. 8, 2024, 2:50 a.m. ET

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Mega Millions tickets will more than double in cost next April from $2 to $5 a pop, lottery officials announced Monday, adding that the new price tag will come with higher cash prizes.

The price increase will come with greater odds of scoring bigger jackpots as part of a “mega overhaul” of the lottery launching in April 2025, Mega Millions said. 

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Sorry, but this is just a tax on people’s hopes and dreams.  And the tax collector is the biggest winner.

I’d like to see the Gooferment make some regulations to bring back “fair play”.  

  • No taxes on winnings.
  • No repayment of welfare benefits on any “small” winnings.
  • No unclaimed prizes should go the Gooferment; throw it in the next pot for drawing,
  • Strict regulation on “employee compensation”.
  • Strict privacy for big winners.
  • And all numbers from 0 to 99.

Then, maybe it would be “fair”.

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RANT: A Leftist college professor demonstrates how to be “stupid”!

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

https://nypost.com/2023/05/22/nyc-hunter-college-professor-cursed-out-anti-abortion-students-tabling-at-school/

 NYC college professor cursed out anti-abortion students tabling at school
By Allie Griffin  —   May 22, 2023 11:39pm

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A Manhattan college (NB: not manhattan.edu) professor flipped out on a group of students who set up an information table opposing abortion inside the school building — cursing and tossing their pamphlets, video of the interaction shows.

Shellyne Rodriguez, an adjunct professor, told the pro-life students they were “triggering” her students by tabling inside Hunter College in Manhattan earlier this month.

The footage was posted to Twitter by Students for Life of America.

“You’re not educating s–t. This is f–king propaganda,” the art professor told the students tabling on May 2. “What are you going to do like anti-trans next?”

A male student behind the table calmly told her, “I mean no, we’re talking about abortion” and said he was sorry about “triggering” her students.

Rodriguez claimed their demonstration was “violent” and yelled at the male student behind the table that he wasn’t sorry “because you can’t even have a f–king baby,” the video shows.

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This is secular “higher” education.  

How can you reason when the Leftists refuse to keep the peace?

Disgraceful and un-American.

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