Lincoln Andrews presented arguments against the Community Preservation Act suggesting that those among us would be forced from their homes because of the CPA tax surcharge.
.In December 2007, the Lottery forwarded figures representing the Middleboro purchases of lottery products. The year was incomplete and any who challenge the figure are invited to do so and present complete figures for the year or current figures for 2008, but they tell a tale.
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If a community INVESTS almost $16 MILLION in loosing lottery products, why is a $48 investment in the Town's future an issue?
.I have posted that the CPA cost represents less than a Dunkin' Donuts coffee each week. Should I say it represents 2 less Scratch Tickets each year?
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Where are our priorities?
.MIDDLEBORO
ALL PRODUCTS 15,950,590.00
MEGA BUCKS 123,048.00
MASS CASH 130,138.00
BGMEGA MILLIONS 374,601.00
DAILY RACE 0
KENO 1,151,224.00
CASH WINFALL 122,545.00
NUMBERS 821,268.00
INSTANT GAME 13,227,766.00
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Let's support CPA on its merits and not hysteria. $48 will not force a single homeowner out of their home, but represents our recognition of the need to plan for the future.
4 comments:
Great statistics, MR. Puts things in perspective, doesn't it?
It certainly does, Gladys.
Can you even imagine $16 MILLION?
$16M. Isn't are budget just over $60M? So basically Mboro residents are flushing an amount of money equal to about 1/4 of Mboro's yearly budget.
The average MA resident spent $682 per year on the !@#$ LOTTERY!! in 2004.
Bumpkin,
That certainly puts things in perspective when you break down the figures like that.
But keep in mind, you have residents like us who never participate.
Before the Lottery Scandal, they used to send out coupons in the ValPaks for $1 scratch tickets that we used. We'd win $15 and go out for dinner. But we never paid for a single ticket.
When they eliminated the coupons,
we never bought any, so I can't understand how some get hooked.
Unfortunately, they're the least able to afford the expense.
I have watched friends that I know can't afford to buy the scratch tickets buy bunches of them. And they know all the names of the tickets. They go out to their cars, scratch them and take their winnings back to buy more.
If you look at the stats for other communities, you'll find that what stands out is that affluent communities don't generate the sales, but reap the rewards.
The communities with the highest sales have the lowest incomes.
You told me that there is a low- and moderate-income exemption in CPA, which eliminates that argument from discussion, but when I watch friends who tell me how poor they are buy multiple scratch tickets, it makes me understand the concept of predatory gambling.
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