Well, to be fair the government did keep $550,000 of it
Not really, the winning ticket would have paid out $1 mil over a 20 yr. period, he chose the cash now option, which paid $450K. He owed tax on that amount.
10 posted on 09/26/2014 6:05:27 AM PDT by Graybeard58
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