https://calwatchdog.com/2010/02/25/new-did-schools-win-state-lottery/ Mon, 06 Aug 2012 05:26:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://calwatchdog.com/2010/02/25/new-did-schools-win-state-lottery/#comment-355 Mon, 06 Aug 2012 05:26:15 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=2413#comment-355 With the CA lottery being flush with cash, why is it the governor of this state is mandating a tax increase in order to curtail threats of further educational cuts; including layoffs, closures, salary decreases, furlough days for teachers AND students, etc…
Is there a watch dog organization watching the “watch dog organization” created by the governor, to monitor the spending of this 34% of lottery revenue? It seems that there should be NO WAY our schools are going broke and in need of more cash via new taxes in order to survive.
Something is very smelly about this and it surprises me that there are no questions, either by CA citizens, nor the CA news media, wondering where and how this 34% is actually being spent.
Should we just arbitrarily trust the statement; “According to the California Lottery, 34 cents from every dollar spent on the lottery goes to the classroom”. How about as much as we trusted the CA Parks and Req’s departments statements that they were broke, while hiding 54 million, yes, million, dollars from the states government and it’s citizens for more than 12 years.
We have become much too complacent with regards to trusting the people that are put (or, that we put) in place to take proper care of our finances. Not only at the state, but at the Federal levels of government.
I will not vote yes on Prob 30, increasing taxes for more school revenue. We need to mandate that our state government work a lot harder into looking within its own wasteful spending habits and lies, before bending the backs of tax payers even more.

]]> https://calwatchdog.com/2010/02/25/new-did-schools-win-state-lottery/#comment-354 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 02:43:20 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=2413#comment-354 With the resent lottery prize of 640 million, What was the dollar amount of the lotery tickets sold to get the prize to this amount and what was the dollar amount of the tickets sold that actually went to the schools???

]]> https://calwatchdog.com/2010/02/25/new-did-schools-win-state-lottery/#comment-353 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:38:54 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=2413#comment-353 Trivial!
Rather than trying to shift pennies back and forth, let’s concentrate on growing the economy so more people can afford $1 for a lotto ticket.

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