LOTTERY WINNER.... Screwed

[Nemisis]

Blasphemous!!!       Like that russian dude said,          some of the more redneck states will secced from the U.S., form their own country, name it the U.S.A. while the United States of America (oh yes, the rednecks won't call their country the United States of America. The name of their country will be the letters U, S, and A with periods between) will be flooded with imagrants from other counties and imigrants from the U.S.A. who were immagrants before the borders got closed and all foreigners were kicked out.


Oh, I may have switched out richer with redneck, and have them all form one country instead of going canada, or China, or whoever else he mentioned, but hey, if you guys wana look on the down side.....

[trax1]

Like others have stated, did you just find out exactly how the Loto works?  That's pretty much the standard as far as what you get when you win the Loto, the majority, about 2/3's, goes to the state.  Read up on the Lottery and you'll see that it's the norm to have that much taken out.

Now if you want the lump some they take even more, if you choose to take the payments, it's either monthly or yearly, you get more.

[Twist]

Either way you slice it, it is still an $88M return on a $15 investment. 

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Either way you slice it, it is still an $88M return on a $15 investment. 

You put a nice twist to it..

[akusher]

Before making an example out of how this guy got screwed, perhaps we should consider the countless citizens in this country who had the brains and discipline to build personal fortunes from nothing, and are being taxed at similar rates to support masses of loafers.

Taxation may be a necessary evil, but hearing some complain about how the top 1% of earners, who already pay 40% of federal income taxes, should be paying their 'share', leads me to question exactly what happened to the concept of merit-based compensation. I'm not sticking up for CEOs who rake in millions while their shareholders suffer, but millions of others who provide decent, honest services for top wages.

Maybe if all those perfectly able-bodied citizens who collect welfare were coerced, by the government, to provide a vast majority of the physical labor there would be some sort of appreciation for hard work.

[trax1]

Before making an example out of how this guy got screwed, perhaps we should consider the countless citizens in this country who had the brains and discipline to build personal fortunes from nothing, and are being taxed at similar rates to support masses of loafers.

Taxation may be a necessary evil, but hearing some complain about how the top 1% of earners, who already pay 40% of federal income taxes, should be paying their 'share', leads me to question exactly what happened to the concept of merit-based compensation. I'm not sticking up for CEOs who rake in millions while their shareholders suffer, but millions of others who provide decent, honest services for top wages.

Maybe if all those perfectly able-bodied citizens who collect welfare were coerced, by the government, to provide a vast majority of the physical labor there would be some sort of appreciation for hard work.

Well if that top 1% weren't paying that amount of taxes they do, then the rest of us everyday people would be paying much higher taxes to compensate for it, and us everyday people would feel that tax increase a whole lot more then that top 1% do.

[moot]

Cue flat/curved tax rate debate.

[akusher]

See Rule #14

[moot]

See Rule #14

[Skuzzy]

Quit trying to steer this into politics folks.

[akusher]

nevermind

[Shuffler]

See Rule #14

[moot]

Actually was trying to curve it away from politics without derailing the valid arguments made.  It's inevitable that the arguments will lead to the source: tax management. Not gonna insist either way.

[trax1]

See Rule #14

[Shuffler]

See Rule #14