Posted on 10/28/2005 8:50:12 PM PDT by phoenix0468
I have just learned that Oklahoma, which recently started a lottery, will be joining Powerball in January 2006. Am I excited? Well yes and no. I am excited at the prospect of having the chance of winning millions in Powerball, but I am not so excited that my sense of reality is skewed. Nevertheless, the chance does exist. So to prepare I Googled the term "lottery winner financial advisor" and got the site http://www.note.com/note/pp/jackpot.html. Very common sense information on how to prepare for winning a major lottery prize, and stay grounded in the fact that your chances of winning are a bit better than getting hit by Haley's Comet.
(Excerpt) Read more at tandminokc.blogspot.com ...
So here it is.
A voluntary tax is better than an involuntary one. Who knows? Maybe with Oklahoma awash in all of this new tax revenue, it will be easier to get raises as a state employee. Just thinking of myself here.......
Powerball...another one of Iowa's exports... :)
So that's were they grow those little ping pong balls. LOL.
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