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Mega Millions Up to $1.6 BILLION! Next drawing Tuesday.
Mega NMillions ^ | 10-20-18

Posted on 10/20/2018 3:13:40 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182

The biggest ever!


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KEYWORDS: lottery; megamillions
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To: Anti-Bubba182; Jim Robinson

If I win, FR is funded until the Sun burns out.


41 posted on 10/20/2018 6:06:39 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Vermont Lt

...But $2 for a dream is just fun.

Like burning money for a shot of dopamine
Unfortunately dopamine junkies just want more dopamine


42 posted on 10/20/2018 6:17:02 AM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: be-baw

Basically if you bought all the numbers it would cost you 200 millions, so, yeah, the odds are in favor


43 posted on 10/20/2018 6:17:32 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Vermont Lt

Well, buy all the odds and it costs you 600 millions... still worth it with 1.6 billion return!


44 posted on 10/20/2018 6:22:23 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Anti-Bubba182
And the big winner is: 60% goes to prize winners. 15% to retailers. 25% back to the state for government services. Add to that the very high percentage of taxes the winner pays for state and federal income tax, out of their take.

Wouldn't it be nice to know how all that money to governments is being spent?

45 posted on 10/20/2018 6:25:12 AM PDT by grania ("You don't give power to an angry left wing mob")
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To: CIB-173RDABN

I follow your reasoning. All winners have one thing in common...they have a ticket.


46 posted on 10/20/2018 6:26:58 AM PDT by grania ("You don't give power to an angry left wing mob")
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To: HangnJudge

Then don’t play.

No one is holding a gun to anyone’s head.

You can sit down by the river and judge us.


47 posted on 10/20/2018 6:34:52 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Anti-Bubba182

I was listening to a radio station broadcast by an historically black university in the area the other day, and I kid you not, they were doing PSA’s from an attorney’s office advising how to handle winning the MegaMillions lottery, don’t sign the ticket with your legal name but do fill it out with the address of an attorney’s office, have the attorney set up a blind trust through an LLC, then have the attorney claim the winning ticket on behalf of the blind trust.

It was a very odd thing to be hearing on what is essentially public radio. I’ve suspected for a long time that payouts for lottery tickets are not exactly random, with a lot more winners in the hood. Just another form of income redistribution. It is true that all the stores known for selling a lot of winning tickets are there. Could be due to volume, but maybe not just that.


48 posted on 10/20/2018 6:36:31 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Yossarian

Money may not buy happiness but it’ll sure make the down payment.


49 posted on 10/20/2018 6:37:20 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: bgill

Money may not buy happiness, but no money ain’t gonna buy $#!+ lol.


50 posted on 10/20/2018 6:39:07 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: JudgemAll
If you did that, it's guaranteed to be 4-5 other winners to split with.
51 posted on 10/20/2018 6:41:55 AM PDT by Licensed-To-Carry (Sessions isn't gonna do crap about Hillary, he is part of the Swamp.)
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If I win I will dedicate the rest of my days to building section 8 housing and walmarts in elite dem enclaves. I will also pay homeless people to squat on places like pelosis estate. I wouldn’t mind building a school system based on hillsdale but K-12 and university that teaches the 3 Rs and real history, but also teaches real skills like they did back in the old days. Plus it would have zero tolerance for mobs


52 posted on 10/20/2018 6:42:14 AM PDT by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

When you buy a lottery ticket, it is not an investment. You are paying for having a pleasant fantasy for a few hours.


53 posted on 10/20/2018 6:42:46 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: InABunkerUnderSF

Lotteries return 2/3 of Monet, not 1/8.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-percentage-of-state-lottery-money-goes-to-the-state/


54 posted on 10/20/2018 6:44:11 AM PDT by samtheman (On to victory in November)
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To: samtheman

Money not Monet

Hateful autocorrect


55 posted on 10/20/2018 6:45:15 AM PDT by samtheman (On to victory in November)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

If I win Iam going to tell every one on national tv that I am giving the money to Trump to start building the wall.


56 posted on 10/20/2018 6:47:48 AM PDT by oldbill
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To: Anti-Bubba182

If you win you will not have to do a DNA test.

You will find out about every cousin and relative you never even knew about.


57 posted on 10/20/2018 6:49:22 AM PDT by oldbill
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To: JudgemAll

302 million...plus change... Problem is... They’ll probably be 4 or 5 winners and you’ll end up with “only” 125 million after taxes.


58 posted on 10/20/2018 6:50:04 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: Hot Tabasco
Would a bank allow you to deposit a half billion dollars into your checking account?

I bet they would. They might even give you a free toaster (remember those days?).

59 posted on 10/20/2018 6:56:53 AM PDT by Oorang (Tyranny thrives where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
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To: Crusher138

My biggest gripe with the lottery in my socialist republic of NJ is the proceeds go to “education”. Really? Aren’t school budgets all done in advance? What are they going to do with windfall sums? Buy more pencils? Sounds like a recipe for corruption to me. I’d rather see it rebated to all income tax payers.


60 posted on 10/20/2018 7:01:25 AM PDT by samtheman (On to victory in November)
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