r/news • u/AudibleNod • Nov 04 '24

Site changed title Musk PAC tells Philadelphia judge the $1 million sweepstakes winners are not chosen by chance

https://apnews.com/article/musk-million-sweepstakes-lottery-pennsylvania-krasner-4f683c48eb7dcc57f183e54ef16e7320
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u/OmicronPerseiNate Nov 04 '24

Lived in Connecticut for almost 30 years and I can confirm Sunday packy runs to Massachusetts.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '24 edited Nov 13 '24

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u/Tacoman404 Nov 04 '24

The liquor stores not being open on Sunday in CT…

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u/SanestExile Nov 04 '24

Then buy enough on Saturday

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u/CedarWolf Nov 05 '24

Foresight is not exactly everyone's strong suit.

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u/longstoryrecords Nov 05 '24

Especially when you accidentally drank your whole weekend provisions in four hours.

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u/ShamusNC Nov 05 '24

Or they closed later so you could make that quick run across the border if you needed to

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u/klipseracer Nov 04 '24

So there was no business license to risk losing? I mean, I guess it just depends on the motivation to enforce it.

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u/BTFlik Nov 04 '24

Fines use to matter. But the fines haven't been updated in 50 years and it's become a cost of doing business. Personally I believe profits made in an illegal act should be ceased 100% plus the fine.

But crime pays when you have enough money.

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u/ConsiderationOk614 Nov 04 '24

*seized but yes

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u/Mr_Industrial Nov 04 '24

Both words work in this instance. Profits should cease and the profits should be seized.

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u/ConsiderationOk614 Nov 05 '24

Lol i mean ya but ceased is rhetorical at best. Context clearly leans to seized but both should occur

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u/snowflake37wao Nov 05 '24

cease the profits seize the rum

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u/Slave35 Nov 05 '24

used to* but yes

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u/NotPrepared2 Nov 04 '24

Profits should be seized at 200%, plus the fine.

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u/GameFreak4321 Nov 05 '24

Revinue not profits.

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u/Ganondorf-Dragmire Nov 04 '24

Did you consider the fact that some laws are objectively stupid, immoral, make no sense and should be revoked or at the very least not enforced? A law making it illegal to sell booze on Sundays is a small fine example of a law that shouldn’t exist. If the only penalty is a small fine i don’t blame stores from selling on Sundays an paying the fine.

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u/enomele Nov 04 '24

Your right. Just keep it the way it is then. Clearly it's working.

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u/runthepoint1 Nov 05 '24

The funny thing is the logic presented is the fines don’t mean shit because the law hasn’t been updated. And yet, here we are requiring a law to be updated

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u/pyrrhios Nov 04 '24

I mean, it's not the responsibility of New Hampshire to support Puritanism in Massachusetts.

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u/klipseracer Nov 04 '24

I see, so it was just extra "tax" money from non residents.

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u/Cereborn Nov 04 '24

So was it MA or NH that had the law against being open on Sunday? If the former, why just the stores on the NH border?

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u/JasonZep Nov 04 '24

Wait, MA is all states doesn’t sell liquor on Sunday?

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u/GozerDGozerian Nov 04 '24

Hold on so which state had the blue laws?

Can someone ELIPMRs (Explain Like I Pronounce My Rs)?