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Like/Dislike ? = One Lottery Winner

Discussion in 'Non-Vegas Chat' started by Joe Strummer, Feb 20, 2014.

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  1. Joe Strummer

    Joe Strummer VIP Whale

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    Somebody in Cal. won 425 million Powerball.
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    Do like or dislike this ?
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    I kinda like it cos it's so hard for me, to fathom winning
    THAT MUCH money.
    How long would it take for you to believe you are
    holding that ticket ?.....besides passing out to the floor !
    If I hear about 10 to 20 million winners ---
    it just doesn't have that same ridiculous inpact on me.
    "Oh, 23 office workers are splitting the 200 million."
    .......just not a big deal to me.........
     
  2. Breeze147

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    My first thought would be: "Thank God I can pay off my fucking mortgage."
     
  3. Bossplayer21

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    imagine the Vegas trip you could have with that money!!!!
     
  4. bdautch

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    Hey imagine if the requirement were that you had to blow ALL of it in 72 hours in Vegas. Like Brewster's Vegas Millions.
     
  5. DeMoN2318

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    people just cant phathom how much money that really is...
     
  6. dfalk

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    I play the lottery when jackpots get this big, but I think its just stupid how big they get for one winner. I would much rather see a bunch of small jackpots and more winner. For Example take that $425million and make it into 17 $25million jackpots. Also take some numbers out so your odd are much better than 1:175million or whatever it is.

    I know I would play alot more. Like here in my state there's a lottery held every year, drawing on Jan 1. They sell 120,000 tickets only for $20 a piece and one winner get $1million. They also have a couple $100,000 winners, some $10,000 winners and a bunch of $500 winners. I wish I could play that more than once a year. A few years ago one of my good friends won the $100,000 drawing.
     
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    Canada has a weekly lottery called Lotto Max with a minimum jackpot of $10 million (tax-free and lump sum, by the way). But the cool thing is that the jackpot maxes out at $50 million. Anything extra amount that would go to the main prize is instead paid out as extra $1 million draws. For instance, tomorrow's draw isn't for a $60 million prize, there's 1 $50 million prize and then 10 separate drawings for $1 million each. The record got up to 50 bonus draws when the top prize hadn't been won in eight weeks.
     
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    It would be impossible to spend all that money.
    Now waste it all would be easy.

    A Vegas trip would definitely be in order but not sure how exciting it would be to win $10,000 on a slot machine after winning $425 million.
     
  9. dfalk

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    That sounds like my kind of lotto. Wish we had that here.
     
  10. wpete

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    Like most Lottery winners, I'm guessing that the winner will take a Lump sum payment of $242 million. (I would opt for the full amount over 30 years). The $242 will be taxed by Uncle and Cali. When all is said and done he'll have enough left over to buy a couple buffet of buffet passes. /sarc

    The winner will end up with only about 25% of the actual amount though. Still enough to live crazy on for the rest of your life, but not enough to buy your own country.
     
  11. Beefcake

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    I'm not too greedy. As long as I net $100 mil after taxes I'm happy. :wink2:

    $100 mil and up is truly FTW money. You could pretty much buy your way out of anything with that much $$$.
     
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    $400M is a lot of money. Its more money than most people could deal with, its more money than what anybody really needs... however, its jackpots getting this big that get people excited enough to buy tickets.
     
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    spend loads on women, wine and fast cars.


    the rest would be wasted...
     
  14. DeMoN2318

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    I think you are confused about the way it works...the $425M is the present value of all the payments over the 30 years...assuming some annual rate. Even if you take the 30 payments, you still end up with the same amount of "purchasing power". Also, the 30 payments are still going to be taxed, in the same bracket as it would be if you took the lump sum.

    Most people take the lump sum because they can get a better annual rate than the assumed rate they use to get to the $425M figure.


    So yes you end up netting ~25% of the $425M figure by taking the lump sum...but taking the 30 payments will not net you anymore
     
  15. Kickin

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    Its discounted along the zero coupon curve. If you take the annuity option all they are doing is taking the lump sum amount and buying 30 zeros, one maturing each year. Of course you can do the exact same thing yourself by taking the lump sum, but you'd be paying the taxes now. With rates still low right now you are getting a fairly high present value. It works out a lot better to take the tax hit now and invest the money yourself.

    But you need to decide on how disciplined you are and things like that. Taking the lump sump is a better financial choice, but taking the annual payments might be safer from some people. Especially if you think you might get swindled by money managers or your family.

    The worst thing you can do if you win the lotto is go and claim your prize right away. Take several weeks if not months to put a plan in place with your tax advisors, bankers, and money managers. I work in investment management and I would take several weeks to make sure everything was in order, and that's after already having a lot of the knowledge and contacts to take care of things.
     
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    I honestly dont think there is anything to get in order, unless if you didn't have a will to begin with. I know there are alot of people who have never handled money and then they should see someone, for me I can spread it around to several different brokerages/accounts and say no to people I barely know quite easily.

    If I ever win that dream of the lottery the last thing I'm gonna do is hire an overpriced lawyer to tell me things I already know. Some would say "what about those taxes" well, I'll pay that 40+ %(federal and state) right off the bat and then worry about next year int/div and capital gains later.
     
  17. ken2v

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    We'd buy a place in Haena or Hanalei, Kauai.

    We'd buy a place in Bend.

    We'd buy a place in Wellington, NZ.

    Terri would become my editorial assistant and photographer.

    I'd not have to quit a wine club to join a new one.
     
  18. JustNgo

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    Believe it or not, California doesn't tax lottery winnings. The reason I'd go with the annual payments vs lump sump is because even if I screwed up really bad the first and second years, I get 28 more chances to make smart choices with a huge wad of cash :p
     
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    To get back on topic, the lottery people say they have tried to offer games with many smaller winners and say that people wont play them , apparently people want to have one guy win 300 mill instead of a 100 3 million winners. I would rather they didn't make winning harder to get larger jackpots, when the powerball first started I think it was 65 million to one, now its 175 million to win. At a 1 in 65 million chance I feel it's just a matter of time, when it's 1 in 175 million I start to get worried that I may never win.
     
  20. wpete

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    I'm not a math major by any stretch, but it just seem to me that if I'm taxed 25% on either 425 mil spread out over 26 years, or 242 mil lump sum, I'm going to end up with more money if I start with the 425 mil.

    Over 26 years the winner would get 12.25 Mil annually after 25% tax. Times that by 26 years and it comes out to 318.75 mil.

    A lump sum payment of 242 mil taxed at 25% would give the winner a single check of 181.5 mil.
     
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