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Pats and Skins tie to state lotteries- should Panthers consider doing the same?

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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/football/nfl/05/22/redskins-lotto.ap/index.html

The Redskins on Friday became the second NFL team to announce a partnership with a state lottery, taking advantage of a new league rule designed to bring in more revenue during a weak economy.

The Virginia Lottery will issue Redskins-themed scratch-off tickets for the 2009 season. The tickets will be sold only in Virginia.

With both North & South Carolina having state-run lotteries, the Panthers have the opportunity to increase their revenue by doing the same. My thinking is that with Jerry Richardson running the show, this doesn't really smack of something that he would do or consider. What are your thoughts?

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I'd be extremely disappointed in Jerry Richardson if he did that. Consciously exploiting the poor like that is inexcusable. When was the last time one of you bought a lottery ticket? Middle class and above doesn't do it on a regular basis, it's the poor trying to make that big hit and spending their last few dollars of the month trying to make it happen...

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I'd be extremely disappointed in Jerry Richardson if he did that. Consciously exploiting the poor like that is inexcusable. When was the last time one of you bought a lottery ticket? Middle class and above doesn't do it on a regular basis, it's the poor trying to make that big hit and spending their last few dollars of the month trying to make it happen...

..you cant be for real...i know plenty of people rich and the poor that play lotto just for the thrill...and people make the choice to play the lottery i dont think thats exploiting

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..you cant be for real...i know plenty of people rich and the poor that play lotto just for the thrill...and people make the choice to play the lottery i dont think thats exploiting

Yes, I am for real. You're pretty young, I'm not. I know a lot of rich and middle class people and not one of them plays the lottery. Sure, they did it as a novelty when it first came about, I'm in Virginia, but they don't now. Only the poor play it now. I understand that NC only got the lottery recently, so your perspective might be skewed, (sorry Skew), but it will change pretty quickly. I've seen it, I know, I lived in Florida as well when they got theirs...

The part about people making a choice to play not being exploitation, well that's just BS. Yeah, spend a dollar and take a chance to win a million. Not exploitation at all... :lol:

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I'd be extremely disappointed in Jerry Richardson if he did that. Consciously exploiting the poor like that is inexcusable. When was the last time one of you bought a lottery ticket? Middle class and above doesn't do it on a regular basis, it's the poor trying to make that big hit and spending their last few dollars of the month trying to make it happen...
..you cant be for real...i know plenty of people rich and the poor that play lotto just for the thrill...and people make the choice to play the lottery i dont think thats exploiting
Yes, I am for real. You're pretty young, I'm not. I know a lot of rich and middle class people and not one of them plays the lottery. Sure, they did it as a novelty when it first came about, I'm in Virginia, but they don't now. Only the poor play it now. I understand that NC only got the lottery recently, so your perspective might be skewed, (sorry Skew), but it will change pretty quickly. I've seen it, I know, I lived in Florida as well when they got theirs...

The part about people making a choice to play not being exploitation, well that's just BS. Yeah, spend a dollar and take a chance to win a million. Not exploitation at all... :lol:

lottery is known as the poor people's tax. i'll try to find the research that i did on it a few years back but what i found was that the lower income households spent quite a bit more of the % of their disposable income on lottery tickets than other income groups.

those in middle to upper class to it on a lark...they don't make it a regular part of their weekly routine the way that lower income families do. i'm not saying that all lower income families do this, btw, but the research showed that it was a large group of lower income people who made it a habit to buy lottery tickets regularly. it was seen as almost an investment.

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Yes, I am for real. You're pretty young, I'm not. I know a lot of rich and middle class people and not one of them plays the lottery. Sure, they did it as a novelty when it first came about, I'm in Virginia, but they don't now. Only the poor play it now. I understand that NC only got the lottery recently, so your perspective might be skewed, (sorry Skew), but it will change pretty quickly. I've seen it, I know, I lived in Florida as well when they got theirs...

The part about people making a choice to play not being exploitation, well that's just BS. Yeah, spend a dollar and take a chance to win a million. Not exploitation at all... :lol:

i think SC..were i live has had it for a while..but just from what i have seen i know a good bit rich people that play the lottery..we call them scratchheads..but thats just me..but i agree with everything else when you put it the way you did

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A group I work with play the lotto. We are hardly poor.

I have heard the poor man tax for a long time. What about cigs, alcohol?

So let's walk thru this. How affordable is it for a poor person to play the stock market?

They could invest the amount they putinto tixs into the market. He can still lose his initial investment in both.

The chances of him becoming uber rich are greater with the lotto.

I would prefer this "tax" to be like it is right now.OPTIONAL.

I don't think we want food tax to increase and there be yet another increase on something the poor HAS to buy.

If the poor wants to spend what little they have on tixs with the hope of hitting it big, so be it. For some that may be their biggest infusion of hope they have.

As for the Panthers doing this...I would NOT like it unless they take that "extra" revenue and feed the homeless here in Charlotte.

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