{"id":26382,"date":"2015-08-30T17:17:24","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T21:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=26382"},"modified":"2015-08-30T17:17:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-30T21:17:24","slug":"what-do-you-do-when-the-money-runs-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=26382","title":{"rendered":"What Do You Do When The Money Runs Out?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Bumper sticker\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bumper_sticker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">bumper stickers<\/a> ever says, &#8220;The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Lottery\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lottery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">lottery<\/a>&#8211;a tax on people who are bad at math.&#8221; We all know that the odds of winning a major lottery prize are pretty much stacked against anyone who buys a ticket. However, the assumption generally is that if you win, you will be able to collect and enjoy your winnings. Unfortunately, lately that is not the case in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Illinois\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=40.0,-89.0&amp;spn=3.0,3.0&amp;q=40.0,-89.0 (Illinois)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Illinois<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4015950\/illinois-lottery-big-winners\/\" target=\"_blank\">Time Magazine<\/a> posted an article stating:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Big-time <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Illinois State Lottery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.illinoislottery.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Illinois Lottery<\/a> winners aren\u2019t getting the largesse. They\u2019re getting left out.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Without a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Government budget\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Government_budget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">state budget<\/a> agreement two months into the new <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Fiscal year\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fiscal_year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">fiscal year<\/a>, there\u2019s no authority for the state comptroller to cut checks over $25,000. That means smaller winnings can be paid out, but not the larger lottery wins.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine owning a state government more than $25,000 and telling them to wait? I can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite bumper stickers ever says, &#8220;The lottery&#8211;a tax on people who are bad at math.&#8221; We all know that the odds of winning a major lottery prize are pretty much stacked against anyone who buys a ticket. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=26382\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[322,7799,9379],"class_list":["post-26382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-associated-press","tag-chicago-tribune","tag-illinois-state-lottery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26383,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26382\/revisions\/26383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}