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To: bonnuss_in_austin who wrote (280404)7/25/2002 4:04:47 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston  Respond to of 769667
 
History shows lotteries (and that's essentially what paying money into government and then trying to get it back is) started centuries ago-and have grown popular, then fallen out of favor, alternately and repeatedly, ever since. Why do they fail? That's what a scholar wanted to know. Almost invariably, clever crooks got control, he learned, and the street players eventually stopped buying when they learned the drawings were rigged. As long as the games were straight, though, they remained successful.



To: bonnuss_in_austin who wrote (280404)7/25/2002 5:15:23 PM
From: MSI  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769667
 
the bill would bar journalists from keeping track of outlays for
many taxpayer-funded conservation programs.

An obscenity. How many of these trick-the-taxpayer bills
are we to accept without another revolution?


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