Michele Malkin/Doug Powers lays it all out:
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**Written by Doug Powers
If your hot morning coffee didn’t do enough to get your blood boiling, this should help:
Click the pic of the guy winning more money than many of the people who are paying for his groceries will ever see for the story at WNEM:
For some reason I have the urge to go see Atlas Shrugged today.
**Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
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If your hot morning coffee didn’t do enough to get your blood boiling, this should help:
AUBURN, Mich. — A man who won $2 million on a Michigan lottery show has told TV5 that he still uses food stamps.
Leroy Fick of Bay County admitted he still swipes the electronic card at stores, nearly a year after winning a jackpot on “Make Me Rich!” He told TV5′s Bill Walsh that more than half the prize went to taxes.
Fick said the Department of Human Services told him he could continue to use the card, which is paid with Michigan tax dollars.
“If you’re going to … try to make me feel bad, you aren’t going to do it,” said Fick.
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DHS spokeswoman Gisgie Gendreau said under federal guidelines, if a person receives a lump-sum payment, the winnings are not counted as income.Hey, why not? The state’s coffers are overflowing.
Click the pic of the guy winning more money than many of the people who are paying for his groceries will ever see for the story at WNEM:
For some reason I have the urge to go see Atlas Shrugged today.
**Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
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