State Lotteries: Prohibits the federal government from taxing the winners of state lotteries and...

...taxes state and local governments exactly what they tax state lottery winners.  [The taxation of state lottery winners is the government falsely advertising what its lottery prizes will be.  It is the state that gives out the lottery prizes and then it taxes what it gives.  This is as ridiculous as taxing government workers and is even more despicable.  The government telling a person he has won a prize only to then tell the winner he has to give a huge chunk of it back is nothing other than fraud.  Any private sector business that would try to attempt this would find itself in court and then its business executives in prison.]

Future Challenges: In US states that allow citizen-initiated state-wide referendums, the first radio talk show host to champion this challenge and:

1) Help spearhead a state-wide citizen-initiated referendum drive within her/his state that would prohibit the state from taxing the winners of the state's lotteries and if her/his state allows people to sign petitions online, to have a way for people to sign the petition at the show's website.  If her/his state doesn't allow online petitions, the show's website has a way for people to request referendum workers to come to their homes so they can collect the person's signature and then the host/ess encourages her/his listeners to go to the show's website and make the request.

2) By way of Future Challenge #1, the host/ess is able to collect at least the minimum number of signatures needed to get the referendum on the state's ballot.

3) By way of Future Challenge #1, the host/ess is able to collect more than enough signatures that if they were votes in the next state election, the referendum would win.

4) By way of Future Challenge #1, the host/ess is able to collect more than enough signatures that if they were votes in the next state election, the referendum would win in a landslide (winning by at least a 2-to-1 margin).

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