http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/08/07...mmed-the-massachusetts-lottery-for-8-million/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1t8ool/til_in_1992_an_australian_gambling_syndicate/ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/how-to-make-a-killing-on-the-lottery-1322272.html http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/07/us/group-s-lottery-payout-is-postponed-in-virginia.html Since you can deduct the cost of the tickets that do not win from your taxes, it basically washes out all the federal taxes that would be taken anyway, so it costs you nothing as long as you do not split it with too many other winners. You just have to have the money to make that initial investment and the logistics sorted in advance.
Don't be such a sourpuss.....it's not your $ and if people want to invest a few bucks and share a few 'what if's" ...so what?
I'm hoping it goes to $ 1.9 Billion by tomorrow afternoon and then gets undercut.The plug pulled.All Ping Pong balls go on strike. Somehow they become soft and gushy.can't read the number. Plus at 4 o'clock all Powerball officials become 2 Feet tall
There is very good reason in History why Money is not the key to happiness. Not just looking at the Clinton's but : Moriae Encomium " The chief happiness [ for a man ] is to be what he is. " -- Desiderius Erasmus
I don't recall anyone here claiming that $ is the key to happiness.... Yet, OTOH, when you had $ to pay your rent, buy food and clothes - weren't you HAPPY? At least you didn't have the stress of not being able to pay your way........
Well then what IS the motive behind having to play the Lotto. Marlon Brando addressed this very point in his career.He wanted to act only so far as it enabled him to Live.Making a movie a year { which meant around 3 months shooting } accomplished it. So he was not interested in being rich beyond any means. Just enough to live very comfortably w/o having to work later in life. Stating that most people - Want stuff - and that is why they crave wealth. Wanting or lusting after stuff is no way to go about life. Stuff cannot love you back.The best example of that is a Pet. Many a poor person has a pet or pets as companion.Pets are not stuff. They are living,breathing creatures.They love unconditionally. Happiness may be bought,but it is also fleeting.Frankly,I don't like or respect those who weekly or daily purchase Lotto/Powerball tickets. I harken back to Willard Scott and his daily celebration of Centenarians or those reaching the ripe old age of 100.I'd say most if not all were just plain average americans like school teachers and janitors and common blue collar folk. They lived long,productive happy lives.And Money was SELDOM a Factor. Got it Now.
The minute I saw Brando's name, I quit reading. You're so obsessed w/Hollywood, yo can't even have a normal conversation w/o dragging Hollywood celebrities and what they think, feel and say into it. Bull(*)(*)(*)(*).......I'm tired of Hollywood babble.........
If I won, I would probably give most of it away to charity. St. Jude & St. Deckel Children's Hospital has a nice ring to it.
Explain for me how a Powerball goes from $ 1.3 to $ 1.4 to $ 1.5 Billion. If there was no payout the last couple,three weeks and the Pot grew because there was No payout,and the Pot is determined by number of tickets sold Each week for the weekly drawing.Shouldn't the Pot have grown exponentially each day as record number of tickets are sold. meaning ... something isn't adding up. The Pot only grew by $ 200 Million bucks in a week.What happened to the accounting of the original $ 1.3 B from last Wednesday. You do the Math. I smell a rat.I do.
Let's say the Powerball is at $ 1.6 currently.Meaning it grew $ 300 Million in a week's time.Then explain if the tickets sales this last week were at record levels. To make that claim there would have to be some identifiable number in which a Pot grows each week in relation to tickets sold. is there some fudging going on.Some of the monies from tickets sold is not being added to the pot but rather somewhere else. Wouldn't it be easy to manipulate that procedure.Therefore some identifiable way to account for ticket sales vs. size of jackpot.
It was worth $900 million Saturday. It's worth $1.5 billion today (Wednesday AM). That's close to doubling ( 167%) in a few days--$700 million added in less than 4 days. It was at around $300 million before New Years. Hard to manipulate, as all of the governments of the states involved want their cut, and they can't afford to be cheating.
There is NO chance that the winners will be picked among the chiefs who run the lottery, none whatsoever. No one in government would steal for only a few hundred million dollars. I don't buy lottery tickets.
For the record, I am COMPLETELY against lotteries of any kind; they're voluntarily-regressive taxes upon the people least able to afford it (and don't get me started on the whole "school funding" crapola). That being said, I actually did purchase a four-dollar ticket last Monday. When asked if I was in on the world's biggest lottery (so far), I wanted to be able to say "yes, I was, and here it is".
Money can't buy happiness...but it can buy me a boat -Some genius country singer I forget the name of
A boat owner is only happy two times during the time they have one. The day they buy it, and the day they sell it. If I win the Powerball, I'm donating 90% of it to the Trump campaign.
If I win the Powerball, I'm building a sophisticated Al Gore-approved underground bunker to shield me from the global warming.
Gee I wonder what Powerball purchasers say to themselves about Not Winning. I'll win next time.? How many times will it take before their brain gets tired and goes On Strike. - - - Updated - - - What about them Killer Shrews.I heard their making a comeback.
