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| Army Wife Wins A Foreign Tummy Tuck Lottery | | 2008-08-21 05:44:00 | | Marketing ploys for cosmetic surgery are as popular as ever, drawing the fancies and whetting the hopes of women more than men. Tina Watson was no exception to this trend and her tendency to put down her name for contests and promotions finally paid off. An army wife, Tina had been yearning for a tummy tuck for 14 years and an online promotion brought her dreams to fruition. The 32-year-old is just one of the many examples of plastic surgery tourism that is experiencing an all-time high given the recent economic status of the USD. The British are one of the cosmetic surgery hopefuls setting their sights on less expensive healthcare and cosmetic procedures available in countries like Hungary, Brazil and even the U.S. Tina Watson, a resident of Haverfordwest in Wales, did not have to pay for her tummy tuck surgery though. Her tummy tuck procedure was performed in Tunisia with all her expenses cared for. Tunisia, situated in North Africa, is one of the vacation countries (Thailand, | | By: Plastic Surgery Institute Of California | | |
| | SYNDICATE E-LOTTERY | | 2008-08-05 17:32:00 | | Do you buy a lottery ticket every week, if not a few times a week and get tired of never winning?Well have you ever thought about joining a lottery syndicate?By doing this you will be giving yourself an extra 733% increased chance of winning the UK Lotto, and a massive 3600% chance for the Euro Millions LotteryThe company that run it Virtual World Direct launched the e-Lottery system back in 2002, so you know you are using a well established company and service.You can even be part of an Affiliate Programme, and earn yourself 20% commission on personally sponsored members, and 5% on members that have been introduced by your team. | | By: Mummy Diaries | | |
| | Science explains why low-income people buy lottery tickets | | 2008-07-26 00:48:35 | | Although state lotteries, on average, return just 53 cents for every dollar spent on a ticket, people continue to pour money into them -- especially low-income people, who spend a larger percentage of their incomes on lottery tickets than do the wealthier segments of society. A new Carnegie Mellon University study sheds light on the reasons why low-income lottery players eagerly invest in a product that provides poor returns.
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| Why do low-income people buy lottery tickets? | | 2008-07-25 12:51:00 | | Why do people from the low income group invest a large percentage of their income on lottery tickets than do their richer counterparts.A new Carnegie Mellon University study determined that poverty played a central role in their spending so heavily on a product that guarantees negligible returns.Participants who were made to feel subjectively poor bought nearly twice as many lottery tickets as a comparison group that was made to feel subjectively more affluent."Some poor people see playing the lottery as their best opportunity for improving their financial situations, albeit wrongly so," said the study's co-author Emily Haisley, doctoral student at Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business."The hope of getting out of poverty encourages people to continue to buy tickets, even though their chances of stumbling upon a life-changing windfall are nearly impossibly slim and buying lottery tickets in fact exacerbates the very poverty that purchasers are hoping to escape."The researchers inf | | By: Indian stock markets | | |
| | North Carolina Supreme Court to Hear Lottery Tax Case in September | | 2008-07-21 23:00:00 | | The Heatherly v. State lottery case will be argued in the North Carolina Supreme Court on Monday, September 8, 2008. It will be the third of five cases argued beginning at 9:30 AM. The Tax Foundation submitted an amicus brief and will not be using argument time. More on the case here:On May 19 the Tax Foundation filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the North Carolina Supreme Court in Heatherly v. State, urging the court to reverse a lower court ruling and hold that the North Carolina Education Lottery generates tax revenue, not "profits." Thirty-five percent of lottery revenues is dedicated to general state spending, equivalent to a 35-percent tax on the sale of each lottery ticket. If that revenue is found to be a tax under the meaning of North Carolina law, then the lottery's enactment in 2005 did not meet the basic state constitutional requirements for enacting tax law.The Tax Foundation has long asserted that lottery revenue should be called tax revenue and that state l | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | Lottery is the Same as Any Other Form of Gambling | | 2008-07-04 00:00:00 | | I always here people complaining about gambling and how wrong it is and why would you want to waste your money, then a week later I bump into them in a shop and they are buying a lottery ticket. I say what are you doing I thought gambling was wrong and they reply don’t be [...] | | By: Resources Zone | | |
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| LOTTERY PROMOTION!CONTACT AGENT ADAMS | | 2008-07-02 22:39:00 | | ________________________________________From: chicoo@freeler.nl [mailto:chicoo@freeler.nl] Sent: 02 Juli 2008 6:01Subject: [***SPAM*** Score/Req: 19.0/5.0] LOTTERY PROMOTION!CONTACT AGENT ADAMS BRADFORD VIA EMAIL(mr.adams.bradford@hotmail.com)REFERENCE NUMBER: UKL/478593G9/19TICKET NUMBER: 112-4540-525-106 01/07/2008 Congratulations,This e-mail is to inform you that you have been selected as a winner for a cash prize of £715,000.00(Seven Hundred and Fifteen Thousand GreatBritain Pounds) on our ONLINE SWEEPSTAKES PROMOTION program which was held today, 01th of July, 2008 in London, United Kingdom. To file your claim, do contact our fiduciary agent assigned to your file via email as given in the contact details below providing your FullName and Reference Number(UKL/478593G9/19) to commence the process ofreleasing your cash prize. Mr. Adams BradfordEmail:mr.adams.bradford@hotmail.comTel: (+44)703-590-1588 Yours Truly,Ken Allan.Group Co-ordinator. | | By: Spam Scam World | | |
| | TemplateMonster 4th of July Lottery – Take part and Win | | 2008-06-26 04:29:52 | | TemplateMonster is organizing a lottery with give-away for any participant for the upcoming 4th of July. Anyone who signs up for the lottery wins a gift from Template Monster.
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| | LOTTERY MANAGER 2008 SOFTWARE | | 2008-06-19 19:06:00 | | If your a lottery player, you may be interested to know that there is a new software out at the moment called Lottery Manager 2008The Lottery Software makes it easy for you to find tickets, and to check to see if you have a winning ticket also.This can save you so much time and money doing this, and also saves you the repetitive pen to paper writing. It's simply a case of a point and click system- it's that easy.You can find loads of games on the site and statistics too. | | By: Mummy Diaries | | |
| | | | Lottery Tickets: Worthy Investment or Waste of Money? | | 2008-06-05 08:00:25 | | Our cousin, aunt and uncle are a loyal patrons of the Taiwan lottery. (Or at least my cousin was until a recent tarot reading convinced her to cut back on the lottery purchases.) But when she first arrived in April, she purchased 2 or 3 California Mega Millions lottery tickets and convinced me to do [...] | | By: Our Fourpence Worth | | |
| | Scandal in the DC Lottery | | 2008-06-02 23:00:00 | | State-run lotteries present a number of tax policy problems: they lack transparency, they impose a tax paid disproportionately by the poor, they unnecessarily complicate the tax system, and the profits are often not used as promised. As if that were not bad enough, there is also potential for corruption. Many people mistakenly believe that government-run lotteries are free of corruption while privately run lotteries would be rife with scandal and crime. While state-run lotteries have, for the most part, been run above board (as far as we know), there are some notable exceptions. In Pennsylvania, for example, corrupt lottery officials injected some of the balls used in a televised lottery drawing with fluid so that the heavier ones would fall to the bottom and certain numbers would not be chosen. Many types of crime have resulted from state-run lotteries, some of them perpetrated by government officials and some by private citizens.The Washington, D.C. lottery has experienced | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | Massachusetts Town Considers Local Lottery | | 2008-05-20 23:00:00 | | We have pointed out the flaws of state-run lotteries many, many times: they impose taxes paid disproportionately by the poor; they're not transparent, or honestly labeled as taxes; the revenue is often not spent as promised; they impose an unfairly high implicit tax rate on one particular consumer good; and they unnecessarily increase the overall complexity of a state's tax system. There's also a question of whether running a gambling enterprise, as a monopoly business, is an appropriate activity for a state government. We have repeated these arguments again and again in various forms: op-eds, studies, blog posts, commentaries, amicus briefs, and legislative testimony. But now, after all that work, it looks like we might have to start all over again and repeat these same arguments, but with the word "local" instead or "state"—at least if one Worcester, MA, city council member has his way.From the Worcester Telegram & Gazette:As municipal off | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | Tax Foundation Urges North Carolina Supreme Court to Hold that Lottery Is a Tax | | 2008-05-20 23:00:00 | | On Monday the Tax Foundation filed friend-of-the-court brief with the North Carolina Supreme Court in Heatherly v. State, urging the court to reverse a lower court ruling and hold that the North Carolina Education Lottery generates tax revenue, not "profits."35 percent of lottery revenues is dedicated to general state spending, equivalent to a 35-percent tax on the sale of each lottery ticket. If that revenue is found to be a tax under the meaning of North Carolina law, then the lottery's enactment in 2005 did not meet the basic state constitutional requirements for enacting tax law.According to the Tax Foundation brief, the lottery revenue meets all three tests for defining a tax. Current U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer laid out the criteria for defining a tax when he decided the San Juan Cellular case for the First Circuit Court of Appeals in 1992. Breyer argued that a judge should consider who imposes the assessment, who pays the assessment, and what the revenue | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | A search on wining lottery number! | | 2008-05-05 00:59:56 | | I was in search for some Wining lottery number, and other stuffs… One of the search results juz caught my eyes and that was dream and win. The site was beautifully designed and each of the menu-items was in the place. The tickets were easy to choose from and they always gives you the odds of Wining lottery number. From the MAC book air, vacations to a car you can win (realize) your dream there. So choose your destiny and get some Lottery numbers so that you are also in the draw for the next round!
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| | Wining lottery number | | 2008-04-23 02:57:00 | | Wining lottery number If you have not been very lucky when it come to lottery numbers, you might want to consider logging onto dreamandwin.com.On this site, you could play your favorite game with winning lottery numbers. You could also choose to win the gift that you desire with your winning lottery number. So go ahead and enjoy playing on the site. | | By: Business Minded People | | |
| | lottery numbers | | 2008-04-21 19:53:00 | | If you have not been very lucky when it come to lottery numbers, you might want to consider logging onto dreamandwin.com.On this site, you could play your favorite game with winning lottery numbers. You could also choose to win the gift that you desire with your winning lottery number. So go ahead and enjoy playing on the site. | | By: BusinessFuzz | | |
| | Winning lottery number | | 2008-04-21 08:49:56 | | It is dream come true. A 29-year-old woman from UK has won $15,000 shopping spree to New York. It is announced by the online raffle that makes dreams come true, Dream&Win. Dream&Win offer The New York Shopping Spree as only one out of a range of unique prize packages. They give players the chance to [...] | | By: Online Marketing Bloggers | | |
| | How to Win the Lottery | | 2008-04-16 23:03:01 | | A new book by author John Zenman, Exploit the Lottery and Win, is about the discovery of lottery drawing systems leading to easy-to-use and down-to-earth methods to win. It is comprehensive with step-by-step breakdowns that clearly illustrate winning methods. It has two aspects. The first is about discovery or exposure of the systematical flow in the lottery games. Next is how to transform this systematical flow into the steps to predict the future results. There are no wheeling systems or astrology related issues but only logical methods.The book quotes actual drawing results for the states of New York, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Ohio in the United States, as well other countries: Canada, United Kingdom, German, Spain, and Hong Kong. These drawing results have something in common as their drawing systems almost work the same way. It doesn't matter whether you're an old hand or new to the lottery games, this book will bring some interesting facts and methods to enlighten you.Each of | | By: How To Win The Lottery | | |
| | Wayhaaa! I've won on the lottery!!!!!! | | 2008-04-06 05:55:12 | | OK - dont get too excited! It was only 5 numbers and as it was in the office syndicate I have to share it with 11 other girls. But its still given me £200 ($400)I didn't have this morning. So as you can imagine we have all spent the day planning how we are going to spend our ill gotten gains. Hubby has already told me I have to pay for the drinks when we go to the Red Lion tomorrow night. Well that's not going to break the bank! Anyway after some discussion with hubby tonight I have decided to splash out on the garden (I can hear you all going Whaaat! how boring is that!!!!)I admit it kind of spoils the rock chick image, but actually I'll get more pleasure from that than any amount of new clothes. I'm strictly a jeans and t-shirt type of girl anyway.The problem is we stripped the garden last year pretty much (it's 60 years old and needed a revamp). The plan is to put in a new pond (we have actually dug it out, but the weather last year was so atrocious that's as far as we got). I have | | By: Tails of Terror from the Black Lagoon! | | |
| | Official Lottery Odds | | 2008-04-03 16:06:00 | | So much for my bad math. Apparently they do remove the lottery balls of selected teams before the next lottery selection is drawn. These are the official official numbers, per Ira, assuming we don't blow it and win 5 games in the closing stretch.Top Pick: 25% and our selection is either Beasley or Rose.Top Two Pick: 46.5% and it's probably Rose.Top Three Pick: 64.3% and frankly, I don't know. Unless we get lucky and Memphis is ahead of us (they won't need Rose), then we are looking at either D.J. Augustin or Brook Lopez or God knows who. | | By: State of Miami | | |
| | Lottery - Real Or Not? | | 2008-03-26 02:00:00 | | Hi all. With this question I would like to find out what happens with the Lottery? Is it chance, or is it controlled? Now my personal feeling is that it is controlled. Everyone all over the world can go look at the last year's draws and compare the notes. We have a Lotto and Lotto plus. Both are dra | | By: CR4: The Engineer's Place for Discussion & New | | |
| | Heat Lottery Stuff | | 2008-03-24 16:35:00 | | The Heat are inching towards getting the worst record in the NBA and the most ping pong balls in the lottery. Unfortunately, this isn't the NFL where the worst record ensures the best pick. It's not even close. Even with the worst record, Miami only has a 25% chance of landing the #1 pick. What's worse is that there is a 42% chance the Miami doesn't even get one of the Top 3 selections.The draft lottery is only a month or so away. What we should all root hard for is a Top 2 selection. If we don't get Beasley, that hurts, but it's not like missing out on LeBron. Even then teams like Miami and Denver ended up with Wade and 'Melo. If we get a Top 2 pick, then Derrick Rose is a no-brainer selection to be our franchise point guard.There is a possibility that if we end up with the #3 pick that Rose is still available to us. Beasley will be long gone, but there are a couple of teams in the lottery that don't need a point guard. Then again, those teams might shop him to the highest bidder and | | By: State of Miami | | |
| | North Carolina Lottery Case Will Go to State Supreme Court | | 2008-03-19 00:00:00 | | Regarding yesterday's divided court ruling upholding the North Carolina Education Lottery, news reports indicate that the plaintiffs plan to appeal to the state supreme court. Because there was a dissent on the three-judge panel in the Court of Appeals, the right of appeal is automatic.More on the Heatherly case here and here. | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | North Carolina Court Says Lottery is Not a Tax; Strong Dissent | | 2008-03-18 00:00:00 | | The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled 2 to 1 today that the state lottery is constitutional, because it neither pledges the credit of the state nor imposes a tax. The Tax Foundation had submitted an amicus brief supporting the constitutional challenge to the law brought by the North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law. Click here for our report on the court's oral argument, which occurred in May 2007. The majority opinion, written by Judge James Wynn, Jr. (D), held that the purchase of lottery tickets is more akin to paying a toll to enjoy a government-provided benefit rather than paying a tax. Further, purchasers of a winning ticket enjoy an exclusive right to the benefits that accrue, a benefit not shared generally by the citizens of North Carolina (like tax revenue would be). This discussion is both true and incomplete, in that it refers only to the 65 percent of lottery revenues that are used to pay prizes and administer the game. That portion of the purchase can | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | New Commentary on Arkansas Lottery Proposal | | 2008-03-12 00:00:00 | | Arkansas is one of only eight states without a lottery, and Lieutenant Governor Bill Halter would like to change that. He has proposed putting a lottery question on the November 4 general election ballot.As we have written before, state-run lotteries levy regressive, hidden, non-neutral taxes that have no place in a system of sound state tax policy. A new Tax Foundation commentary takes a humorous approach at explaining why Arkansas should remain a non-lottery state. Click here to read the commentary, "A Modest Proposal for Raising Education Revenue in Arkansas Without a Lottery."Click here to read the Tax Foundation Background Paper Gambling with Tax Policy: States' Growing Reliance on Lottery Tax Revenue. | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | Mindcracking Monday Monster #3: Winning the Lottery | | 2008-03-03 07:38:04 | | It's Monday once again, so it's time to slay another Mindcracking Monday Monster again. This logic quiz is again calling you to play by numbers baby, but in a different way than the previous two monsters.
As usual, 250 Entrecard credits is to be given away to the one who answers this one first, and another 100 Entrecard credits to whoever wins the raffle, and the entries to this raffle are no
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| | MAN WINS THE LOTTERY THEN ENDS UP IN JAIL | | 2008-02-26 13:17:00 | | Wouldn’t be great if you won the lottery one day for one-thousand dollars? Well, that’s what happened to a man living in Ellsworth, Maine, but unfortunately that lottery ticket was taken away from him by local police in the area. What would make police take a lottery ticket from a lucky winner you ask? Michael David, the 46 year-old man that won the Maine lottery, was earlier accused of selling four 10-miligram methadone pills for $15 last weekend. David used the remains of the drug transact | | By: THE AC 411 | | |
| | Funny jokes-The lottery | | 2008-02-17 22:39:44 | | A woman came home, screeching her car into the driveway, and ran into the house.She slammed the door and shouted at the top of her lungs, "Honey, pack your bags. I won the lottery!"The husband said, "Oh my God! What should I pack, beach stuff or mountain stuff?" "Doesn't matter," she said. "Just get out." | | By: Really funny jokes | | |
| | Tax Foundation Testifies before Vermont Legislature on Future of VermontÂs Lottery | | 2008-01-17 00:00:00 | | Vermont is one of a dozen states that are considering leasing or selling their lotteries. Yesterday, Alicia Hansen, author of the Tax Foundation Background Paper Gambling with Tax Policy: States' Growing Reliance on Lottery Tax Revenue, testified before the Vermont Legislature's Ways and Means Committee on the merits and drawbacks of different types of lottery privatization. She explained that selling the lottery to a private company would be preferable to leasing it because a sale would remove the state entirely from the lottery business:The drawback to a lease, from a tax policy standpoint, is that the state would still be involved in the lottery business and would still in effect be imposing a high implicit tax on lottery sales when it collects the annual revenue from the private company. ...The third option is selling the lottery outright to a private company. This is the best option, and has been considered by Massachusetts, Colorado, Texas, Michigan, Illinois and New Jersey (some of these states have also considered leases).There are a few potential challenges to consider, however. Lawmakers looking to sell a lottery—or any public asset—for a one-time payment must consider what will happen after the lump-sum payment is used up. Will the money be spent slowly and carefully, and will it last as long as predicted? The executive director of the California Budget Project, commenting on Governor Schwarzenegger's lottery-privatization proposal, said, "The problem is that it's a one-time infusion of cash when we have an ongoing budget shortfall. ... You can only sell an asset once." However, in FY 2006 Vermont raised only .6% of its own-source revenue from the lottery, less than the average lottery state. If Vermont is going to sell the lottery, now would be the best time, before it becomes more dependent on lottery revenue. Losing the revenue now would likely not be as painful as many people fear given the small | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | Dalai Lama Wins Powerball Lottery | | 2007-12-26 21:33:00 | | CWT-Dharamsala, India. CWT's Asian Bureau reports reliable sources have confirmed His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama holds a winning United States Powerball Lottery ticket. A spokesman for The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama (OHHDL), known in Tibetan as Kuger Yigtsang, informed CWT that the winning ticket for 338 million USD was purchased in October by an American admirer of the Dalai Lama and mailed to His Holiness in a Christmas card. " His Holiness makes every effort to read and respond to all correspondence, " said the official, " but over the holiday season we received so many cards and letters it became impossible to keep up - this one just slipped through the cracks until yesterday."CWT has learned the winning ticket was purchased and mailed by Virgil Lempert of Quinine, West Virginia. Friends of Mr. Lempert say he was " very impressed " with the Dalai Lama when he watched the broadcast of His Holiness receiving the Congressional Gold Medal in October. According to M | | By: Cats With Thumbs | | |
| | Lottery scam, Police lay charges | | 2007-12-19 08:21:00 | | Ontario Provincial Police have laid charges relating to an alleged multi-million dollar lottery prize insider win, the force announced Tuesday.
Charges came after police executed a search warrant on an Ontario residence Tuesday morning, police sources told CBC News.
The charges are related to a fraud investigation, police said, but both the OPP and the provincial government refused to go into | | By: News Alert | | |
| | | Bet on the House, Not on the Lottery | | 2007-11-30 00:00:00 | | The Motley Fool has a good article on what a terribly foolish thing is it to buy lottery tickets. Reporter Rich Duprey explains that the payback from lotteries is worse than from any other bet available, worse than any casino game. And they cite Alicia Hansen's 2004 Tax Foundation Background Paper on lotteries to bemoan how much money Americans continue to pour into this dreadful state-run gambling operation. Hansen updated that study in 2007 though, so here are the newer, even more depressing numbers of how much Americans are foolishly spending on lottery tickets.As always in a Motley Fool article, the reporter concludes with good investment advice:Bet on the houseA better bet ... to invest that $10 in the companies that make lotteries, games of chance, and casino games possible. Slot maker International Gaming Technology (NYSE: IGT), online gambling software provider Cryptologic (Nasdaq: CRYP), and deck-shuffling machine producer Shuffle Master (Na | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | Indiana Governor Abandons Plan to Lease State Lottery | | 2007-11-27 00:00:00 | | A number of state legislators and governors have recently considered selling or leasing their state-run lotteries for a quick influx of cash. One of the most publicized lottery "privatization" plans was crafted in Indiana, although it was never implemented. Now Governor Mitch Daniels has announced that he is abandoning this plan.Form Lottery Post:Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels said today he won't make a renewed pitch in the upcoming legislative session for his proposal to privatize the Hoosier Lottery, saying lawmakers will be too busy considering property tax reforms.During the last session, Daniels proposed leasing the lottery to a private operator and said one company was willing to pay $1 billion plus $200 million in annual payments for the 30-year lease.The money it generated would have gone toward a life sciences fund and a scholarship program for college students who stay in-state after graduating.A version of his plan passed the Republican-dominated Senate. But | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | Free Lottery Tickets at AdverCash | | 2007-10-14 08:20:00 | | From the AdverCash website"New Feature! Lottery Tickets have been implemented into the AdverCash community. For every 10 ads you click, you will receive a lottery ticket. You can then use the lottery ticket to try to earn some extra bonus cash! Win up to a $25 bonus!"This is one of the best ways to keep the members active and a great free way for the members to make some easy money. | | By: Paid Mails, Paid to Click & Pay Per Click | | |
| | The lottery winner show | | 2007-09-24 04:29:18 | | You know just when I start feeling all happy and motivated my husband has to go turn on one of those lottery winner shows and I get all depressed again. I am building an earthbag home but that doesn’t mean i wouldn’t like to live in one of those big expensive ones. I would. [...] | | By: Quietly Into the Night | | |
| | Tips On How To Get Rich Without Winning The Lottery | | 2007-09-22 05:13:28 | | Tips On How To Get Rich Without Winning The Lottery Slideshow TranscriptSlide 1: HOW TO GET RICH WITHOUT WINNING THE LOTTERY Simple Methods to Get Rich, Retire Wealthy, and ► Have the Time of Your Life! How people create fortunes without leaving their jobs! ► ► How you can retire 20 years early! How to fire your boss and enjoy Monday mornings and take a FREE vacation EVERY YEAR! ►Slide 2: Can you really be rich, retire wealthy and have the time of your life? Yes! And it doesn’t matter if you are a rocket scientist, a taxi driver, a fisherman, a bank teller or even a backpacking bungy jumper. Anyone can be rich, retire wealthy, and have the time of his life by using some common sense ideas. ► I’ll show you a really short course on becoming rich.Slide 3: Spend Less Than You Earn – Invest The Difference. ► Thisis the only way you can accumulate the money for your investment fund. ► Your Money can’t work for you if you don’t have any money to put into work. “Savin | | By: Book of Tips - Find helpful tips that can help you | | |
| | Oklahoma Lottery Goes to the DogsÂLiterally | | 2007-09-13 07:00:00 | | If you were to compile a list of some of the basic functions of state government employees, what would come to mind? Making tax and spending decisions? Monitoring public utilities? Maintaining infrastructure? Prosecuting criminals? It's a pretty long list, but chances are, one thing you would not put on that list of basic functions of public servants is "judging the attractiveness and photogenicness of pet dogs." Unless you live in Oklahoma, that is. From the Oklahoma Lottery's Web site (PDF):To encourage membership in the Oklahoma Lottery Player's Club, the Oklahoma Lottery is Lookin' for Lucky Dogs to be featured in an upcoming Scratcher. Ten (10) dogs will be selected to appear on the Lucky Dog Scratcher, which will be launching in December 2007.The promotion will be available through the Oklahoma Lottery website, http://www.lottery.ok.gov/, from September 1-30, 2007. Once submitted, photos will be approved by the Lottery staff and will be posted on the Oklahoma Lottery we | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | Transparency in the New York Lottery | | 2007-08-15 07:00:00 | | The New York lottery has recently changed the way it reports video lottery terminal (VLT) sales data. States whose lotteries offer VLTs do not all report sales data consistently: some report total revenue (cash in) while others report revenue minus prizes (cash in less cash out). This causes problems for taxpayers, lawmakers and researchers trying to compare lottery data across states. From the Journal News:The New York Lottery is for the first time reporting the amount of money gambled on its video games after The Journal News revealed that billions of dollars in wagers were being kept off the books.Earlier this year, The Journal News reported that the Lottery's annual reports and audited financial statements detailed only a fraction of the billions of dollars bet on its video games because the Lottery did not disclose the portion of wagers returned to gamblers as prizes. In response to the newspaper's findings, government watchdogs and state lawmakers from both parties urged reform | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | Famous European Lottery Scams ( European Lottery Notification) | | 2007-07-28 15:44:00 | | EUROPEAN LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL.INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION PROGRAM.FROM: THE PROMOTION DIRECTORINTERNATIONAL PROMOTIONS DEPT.EUROPEAN LOTTERY COMMISSION ANNIVERSARYThis is to inform you of the release of email balloting held on the 18TH AUGUST, 2006 ,by EUROPEAN LOTTERY COMMISSION ANNIVERSARY.For the first time ever EUROPEAN LOTTERY COMMISSION have decided to celebrate it's 101 anniversery by awarding €1,000,000.00 (ONE MILLION EUROS) each to 20 lucky winners who were selected through a computer ballot system drawn from only Microsoft users from over 30,000.00 companies and 5,000,000 individual email addresses and names from all over the world.However, the results were released on 18TH SEPTEMBER,2006 and your email was among the 20 Lucky winners who won €1,000,000.00 each on the 101 anniversery of the EUROPEAN LOTTERY COMMISSION, and your email was attached to ticket number XBX38844240 and ballot number 00043261.In other to claim your €1,000,000.00 prize winning, which has been depo | | By: Blogging Demo | | |
| | Post Code Lottery in NHS (UK) | | 2007-06-26 14:32:00 | | Follow the link to the original post here: Please Help - An Appeal to UK Residents onlyPlease find below a message from a fellow UK blogger, if you would like to help, please follow the links to the petition... I have just had news that a relation has found out that their baby needs treatment for a large birthmark on his face. The parents have just been told that their local Healthcare Trust won't fund laser treatment of the birthmark because they consider it to be cosmetic, not withstanding the fact that nearly every other PCT in the country will treat birthmarks and it is a well established fact that facial disfigurement can have a serious psychological impact.They've investigated private treatment and not only will it cost tens of thousands of pounds (at least 6 treatments under general anaesthetic) but none of them will treat him till he's 14 years old and for optimal effectiveness it needs doing as soon as possible.His parents set up a petition on the 10 Do | | By: Munny4Hunny | | |
| | Winning The Euro Millions Lottery- For the 5th Time. | | 2007-06-15 08:03:23 | | I have never had so much luck in my life. I mean-winning the Euro Millions lottery 5 times within the same month? What are the odds? Below is the email I received-yet again, telling me of my good fortune.
EURO MILLIONS INTERNATIONAL
175 WOODHILL ROAD, BULKYARD, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
THE AWARD DEPARTMENT.
REF: OYL /26510460037/02
BATCH: 24/00319/IPD
Your ticket number: 023-0148-790-459 with Serial number 5368/05 drew
the lucky number: 29
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| | Court Considers Whether Lottery Is a Fee or a Tax | | 2007-05-24 07:00:00 | | As we noted here yesterday, a three-judge panel of the North Carolina Court of Appeals in Raleigh heard oral arguments Tuesday in the Heatherly v. State case. The plaintiffs argue that North Carolina's rushed passage of a state lottery violated provisions in the state constitution that guarantee deliberation and public awareness for tax increases.Since it's undisputed that 35 percent of lottery revenues are deposited in the state's general fund, the court focused on the key question: is that 35 percent a tax or a fee? State attorney Norma Harrell sided with the trial court and argued voluntariness—that no one is forced to buy a lottery ticket, so it's like a vendor-vendee relationship. In response, Judge Robert Hunter (R) noted that no one is forced to buy liquor either, but the excise tax on liquor is still a tax. His question is identical to a point we made in our amicus brief: just because a purchase is voluntary, that doesn't make the payment of tax vo | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | Tax Foundation Weighs in on North Carolina Lottery Lawsuit | | 2007-05-23 07:00:00 | | Ever since it was first debated in the legislature, North Carolina's lottery has been plagued by scandal, crime, accusations of underhanded machinations in the legislature, and a slew of other problems. But none of this compares to the lawsuit.A group represented by the North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law filed suit against the state in December 2005, asking a judge to block the lottery's start and arguing that a lottery is in part a tax and the legislature breached the state's constitutional requirement that tax legislation be passed in both the House and Senate on three separate days. In March 2006 a judge ruled that the lottery is not a tax and therefore the bill was passed constitutionally, and the lottery could proceed with ticket sales. The case was appealed and arguments before the court of appeals started on May 21. One of the things the judges may take into consideration is an amicus curiae brief submitted by the Tax Foundation in January, arguing that | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | Psychic Lottery | | 2007-03-13 10:47:00 | | Here is a quote from Jay Leno:
"Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?" | | By: McCafferty's Pub | | |
| | SELF DEFENSE TIPS FOR FOREIGN LOTTERY SCAMS
Forei... | | 2007-02-26 19:52:00 | | SELF DEFENSE TIPS FOR FOREIGN LOTTERY SCAMSForeign lottery scams have become a big problem in the past year for many people. I have noticed myself whenever I open up my Inbox to check my emails I find that I have "won" at least a quarter of a million dollars from some lottery in another country. I have also noticed now that it is happening over the phone where a detailed automated message is left saying that I have won a so much money. This scam causes huge identity theft problems to it's unsuspecting victims.So how do you go about finding out if this is true or not. You can call your Better Business Bureau and get information on the lottery or business that is stating you won a prize. But the best rule of thumb is if you don't live in the country that you have won the lottery from you cannot claim the money because you are not a citizen. Bottom line listen to the old adage...if it sounds to good to be true, it probably is. | | By: TACT's-Take No Prisoners Blog | | |
| | Tonights Winning Lottery Line-Up | | 2006-09-04 17:31:49 | | GUESS WHOSE BACK....... Here are the lineups: Sox1. Kevin Youkilis, 1B2. Mark Loretta, 2B3. Eric Hinske, DH4. Manny Ramirez, LF5. Trot Nixon, RF6. Mike Lowell, 3B7. Jason Varitek, C8. Gabe Kapler, CF9. Alex Gonzalez, SS P -- Julian Tavarez White... | | By: Red Sox Nation Daily | | |
| | Lottery Winners Lose All | | 2003-06-29 03:15:00 | | You have heard it time and again. Lottery Winners lose it all and trust fund babies waste their parent's hard earned cash. In fact, up to 80% of the lottery winners in this country file bankruptcy within five years. Most of us say," That would never happen to me. You would have to be really dumb to lose all that money." Yet the very reason that these individuals let their money run through their
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