MegaMillions

I got 4 numbers left in office drawer.
No winner yet, gonna buy it again for Friday’s draw.
 
supposedly they printed two winning tickets
one went to washington and the other to idaho
 
Please don’t support these gambling enterprises masquerading as governments. The lottery is a complete rip-off and they shouldn’t even exist. If for-profit enterprises ran their business like the lotteries do (at least in Calif), they would be run out of town or in jail.
 
You have a point. However, I would still rather have people pay a “voluntary tax” than be taxed myself. It’s actually a pretty good scheme for the government. They pay off less than what they collect and then tax the winners further.
 
goes to eleven Wrote:
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> The lottery is a
> complete rip-off and they shouldn’t even exist.
> If for-profit enterprises ran their business like
> the lotteries do (at least in Calif), they would
> be run out of town or in jail.
The same can be said about Casinos.
 
Casinos are illegal in most places. That’s why places like Las Vegas get many tourists. Also Indians.
 
One year the state of California was selling “scratchers” and advertising that you can win the jackpot of x million dollars. Unfortunately, that grand prize had already been claimed. They continued to sell the tix, even when they knew the grand prize was gone.
When called on it, the lottery claimed sovereign immunity. Turns out the the state does have sovereign immunity on false advertising claims. Ugh.
They are allowed to call it a (for instance) $100 million jackpot when it is nowhere near that amount. I’d like to know what is stopping them from using a different discount rate, and call the jackpot $200 million, but you only get $50 million (before taxes) if you take the lump sum. What a crock.
 
This reminds me of a story where some villager was selling raffle tickets to other villagers. The tickets gave them a chance to win a goat. But it turns out that the goat died. So the guy refunded the ticket price to the winner.
 
ohai Wrote:
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> This reminds me of a story where some villager was
> selling raffle tickets to other villagers. The
> tickets gave them a chance to win a goat. But it
> turns out that the goat died. So the guy refunded
> the ticket price to the winner.
Nice. I need to get me a goat.
 
Just remember that if you win the lottery you must only use the lottery winner title as an adjective not a noun or common name. Also do not put periods between the letters and do not bold just the designation to give it more prominence.
 
if you win 300 million is there any way to keep it on the down low?
or is the winner always publicly announced –
with that much cash, the first thing I would do would be to hire legal support and a PR team
 
Being able to say no to friends and family would be the hardest, yet most valuable thing to learn. Obviously don’t be a b*tch and say no to everyone and everything.
 
Analti_Calte_Equity Wrote:
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> if you win 300 million is there any way to keep it
> on the down low?
>
> or is the winner always publicly announced –
>
>
> with that much cash, the first thing I would do
> would be to hire legal support and a PR team
no, you don’t have much of a choice. you have to do the whole “day with the press” + pictures + galore.
 
iteracom Wrote:
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> Analti_Calte_Equity Wrote:
> ————————————————–
> —–
> > if you win 300 million is there any way to keep
> it
> > on the down low?
> >
> > or is the winner always publicly announced –
> >
> >
> > with that much cash, the first thing I would do
> > would be to hire legal support and a PR team
>
>
> no, you don’t have much of a choice. you have to
> do the whole “day with the press” + pictures +
> galore.
If you wait several months a lot of the excitement dies down and you probably won’t make it onto the national news. Regardless, you should have your legal team set up long before you claim your prize. People who claim big jackpots within a couple of days are setting themselves up to lose it quickly.
 
marcus phoenix Wrote:
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> The winners would make excellent kidnapping
> targets.
No way…go for the close family and friends.
 
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