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Lawmaker Wants Scratch-Off Lottery Game To Help Homeless Veterans

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A Senate lawmaker wants the Hoosier Lottery to create a new scratch-off game to benefit homeless veterans.

Sen. Ron Alting’s (R-Lafayette) bill would allow the Hoosier Lottery to create a new scratch-off game. Money from the game would go into a Veterans Homelessness Assistance Fund, created by the bill. Alting says the scratch-off funds could also go towards mental health and drug addiction treatment – which he says are often at the root of veteran homelessness.
Lawmaker Wants Scratch-Off Lottery Game To Help Homeless Veterans
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Here's a great idea, help Americans . Particularly, homeless veterans. More should be done already, without needing a lottery ticket to raise funds, but if it can help some vets get their lives back together, I'm for it.

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Gambling hurts more people than it helps.

I'd rather see a tax on booze to help homeless veterans.
 
KevinKohler said:
Gambling hurts more people than it helps.

I'd rather see a tax on booze to help homeless veterans.
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Maybe gambling does hurt, but it already exists in Indiana. I see nothing wrong with adding a game that will at least provide some aid to our veterans. In that context, I think it's a great idea.
 
truthatallcost said:
Here's a great idea, help Americans . Particularly, homeless veterans. More should be done already, without needing a lottery ticket to raise funds, but if it can help some vets get their lives back together, I'm for it.

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I see it as a better approach than what they are trying to do in California by raising sales taxes to do the same thing.

Quarter-cent sales tax measure to aid L.A. County homeless is placed on March ballot - LA Times
 
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