Winning Powerball ticket for $2.04 billion jackpot sold in California

Foxnews ^

[Red in Blue PA]

So now the state of CA takes what, 2.03B in taxes?

What a waste.

[Red Badger]

They said earlier that it rolled over again????!...............

[Red in Blue PA]

I saw that too. Curious.

[V_TWIN]

“Monday evening’s Powerball drawing was delayed for nearly 10 hours until Tuesday morning because a participating lottery had issues processing sales.

The association said it was against its policy to say which lottery had the delay.”

Well isn’t THAT convenient........glad I kept my money in my pocket this time.

[Red in Blue PA]

Can’t trust anything anymore.

Banana Republic.

[jetvol1]

“So now the state of CA takes what, 2.03B in taxes?
What a waste.”

Exactly what I thought. They’ll end up with close to nothing.
Wonder if the winners name is David Depape. He could buy a lot of hammers with that.

[mykroar]

Yep. Original story is still out on yahoo. See the other lottery thread...about as secure as our elections. LOL

[gundog]

The winner?

[CIB-173RDABN]

I don’t play the lottery because I might win!

Money changes things and if you win big everything in your live changes. I am quite comfortable with my life as it is today and I would not want the hassle winning a lottery would bring.

[mykroar]

That's interesting, the CNN story says it was Minnesota:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4107319/posts

[aMorePerfectUnion]

if this were a Daily Mail headline...

Putin Humiliated as Winning Powerball ticket for $2.04 billion 
jackpot sold in California,

[V_TWIN]

Probably handled by Dominion software.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Pelosi’s parting gift

[BiteYourSelf]

Except California doesn’t tax lottery winnings, which is about the only thing they don’t tax.🙄

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Someone who has amazing dirt on the powers that be and who is impossible to eliminate either because he has great security or killing him would be creating a martyr.

Better to give him 2Bil to keep his mouth shut.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

We got the Power Ball number right! We won $4.00! We'll try really, REALLY hard to not let it change our 'lifestyle' but now I can afford THREE things from The Dollar Twenty-Five Store with 25-cents to spare!

Yay! Let's Go, Brandon!

[Peter ODonnell]

Other possible headlines:

GRETA THUNBERG SAYS $2 BILLION LOTTERY WIN WILL BE SHARED BY THOUSANDS OF CLIMATE ACTIVISTS

ELON MUSK SAYS HE IS GLAD TO HAVE A BIT OF SPENDING MONEY

CALIFORNIA MOTHER ECSTATIC TO WIN $78 AFTER TAXES

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

Bastard. I was waiting to buy my powerball ticket till after the cash out equaled at least 2 billion. >:(

[martin_fierro]

lol

[MeganC]

Lottery winnings in California are only subject to Federal taxes and they are exempt from state and local taxes.