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Originally Posted by gldstwmn
After hearing the lottery news, Sen. Kent Conrad, D-North Dakota, the top Democrat on the Budget Committee, quipped the money should be used to pay down the federal deficit.
"We'll take it all," he said.
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that's the sort of thing Democratic senators & congressmenwomen shouldn't even joke about because it just feeds into the perception that they derive an almost sexual pleasure in spending other people's discretionary income.
You win the Lottery, it's yours (after taxes, that is). Period. I don't care whether you're scrubbing toilets for $10,000 a year or directing a household staff of 50 people at your summer estate.
All that said, this Republican guy will probably give it to some charity, & then make a big public to-do out of it to show what a caring guy he is.
The only politicians of any party worth trusting are the ones who leave politics in a straitjacket.