Well there is one lucky/happy soul in New York today.. won the $312 million dollar jackpot

[Ghost in the Machine]

For Mega Millions

http://www.megamillions.com/numbers/

Guess I'm gonna have to shoot for the $125 million on Powerball tonight

[adigal]

1. Better them than me

I saw firsthand what getting money not earned does to people with a lot of the firefighters from 9/11 who got settlements. It broke up families, marriages, friendships. I think this $312 million is a curse, not a blessing, unless the person is going to open a center for kids in bad areas, or a dog shelter.

[Prometheus Bound]

2. Yep, I'd keep a million and give 311 million away.

I can't imagine what anyone would want to do with more than that.

[Scuba]

4. Delete, please.

[joshcryer]

7. Give it to me.

[Prometheus Bound]

15. Ha! You wouldn't know what to do with it either.

I know you'd just end up giving it to people in greater need.

[Stevenmarc]

17. Give a man a fish and they eat for a day, invest in a fish farm

And you can feed a whole lot more.

Personally I would set up a foundation to sustain my ability to give.

Besides they won't be receiving $312 million it will be around $100 million

[Posteritatis]

21. "sustain my ability to give" - I like your wording there. (nt)

[IScreamSundays]

22. fugg that!!

that is 190,000,000 cleaned and pressed. Sure I would donate to some worthy causes. Honestly, and let's get honest, I would give my kids the absolute best college education that can be had, I would get a face lift, I would take care of my aging parents in a regal style, I would fix my teeth, I would buy the house of my dreams, and I would just worry about the things that didn't cost money.

[Prometheus Bound]

25. OK, but couldn't you do all that with $2m and give away the rest?

And just wondering, in the US, if you gave it all way to registered charities could you avoid paying taxes on your winnings?

[madmax]

10. Curse me please

:evilgrin: I'd like to play around with it and see what happens. :rofl:

Fantasty time - what would you do with that money?

[Scuba]

3. He's a pauper....

...by the Koch's standards. They increased their wealth $5.75 Billion dollars last year. Each.


The NY lottery winner would have to win a lottery that size for 1,792 straight weeks to match what the Koch brothers got last year. Each.

[Syrinx]

5. Bradley Manning won?

I'm happy for him. He deserves it. :)

[fasttense]

6. Do you realize that this person could give $1 million to each and every family

in the US and still have about $150 million remaining.

Now, what do you think Bill Gates, the Koch brothers, Ted Turner and the Waltons could do for society and poverty?

Instead, they gut everything and try to steal away our few remaining rights.

What is wrong with our corporate aristocracy?

[joshcryer]

8. There are 116,011,000 households in the United States.

That's 116,010,679 households that couldn't get a dime.

Completely ignoring that the IRS taxes the fuck out of the winnings and if you take the cash option you lose something like half of it off the beat.

[Posteritatis]

13. And the winner's likely to get sued/harassed/scammed into the gutter in the next few years to boot

In that sort of situation the only escape is basically to change your name and move.

[Egnever]

9. Wow your math is horrible

I hope you arent an accountant or engineer

[SDuderstadt]

11. Wait...

what??

[BoWanZi]

16. Wut? There is now about 300 families in the entire US now?

New Math?

[Codeine]

20. It's that kind of mathematical illiteracy that makes people play the lottery

in the first place.

Seriously, I can't even IMAGINE how you got that one so wrong.

[adigal]

23. THIS comment is hysterical

I always cringe when I see elderly people who look not rich, or people driving beat-up cars who look like they don't have a lot buying $10 or $20 of lottery tickets. I want to scream at them, "You are NOT going to win the lottery!!!"

[pintobean]

12. I matched the

number 54...twice
:woohoo:

[w8liftinglady]

14. See- people like you and me NEED to win- we are socialists at heart

I would spread that money all over the place.

I think I'll buy tickets...karma's been good to me lately...

If I win,I'll share...deal?

[Reader Rabbit]

18. Dammit. That means I have to go to work on Monday.

Hmph.

[krispos42]

19. I won the $3 jackpot

22 24 31 52 54 MB04

I guess I'd better buy more PowerBall tickets for tonight...


ETA

Shit, that was on a ticket for Tuesday drawing! :banghead:

[sarcasmo]

24. Only two #'s on my ticket.