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Author Topic: site breaks down how much you'd get net out of 540 million lottery win for each state [Locked]
BritonGuy  4 stars
Title: Serious Business
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Registered: 2004-3-4 20:43:50
Lump sum, duct tape it to my body, run cross country.

 

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LadyMetropolis  1 star
Posts: 212
Registered: 2010-12-23 20:31:04
I noticed FL isn't on that list. Is there a reason we're being punished?
Lothland  1 star
Posts: 194
Registered: 2004-3-8 02:11:56
Lump sum is much more money if you invest ANY decent amount of it then the annuity.

 

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-Foxy-  5 stars
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Registered: 2002-5-29 21:46:17
Texas: No State Tax on Lottery Prizes!
Your net per year: $18,461,539
After 26 payments: $480,000,014

lump sum
Your net payout: $346,500,000

 

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ryu_masamune
Posts: 40
Registered: 2000-5-18 06:56:19
BritonGuy posted:

ryu_masamune posted:

This could be the development of a product, starting a company, building a community center, funding research, creating a SuperPAC and literally buying a High Office election... anything is on the table.



Worked so well for Gingrich.



Oh Briton, I'm not so much a novice that I'd be using my fortune to buy 'me' the Office... no no, that never works out. Look at Ross Perot. I'd buy the candidate and stack the campaign. 74% chance of success there.

 

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Fozzie_Bear  4 stars
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Registered: 2001-12-20 01:43:43
LadyMetropolis posted:

I noticed FL isn't on that list. Is there a reason we're being punished?



Bush election, duh?

 

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deadcactus  3 stars
Posts: 669
Registered: 2001-12-27 09:17:08
You're an idiot if you take the annuity.

The annuity is less money. People investing $300 million aren't plopping it into a CD at 3% interest. You'd come out ahead with passive investing alone but most of you seem to highly underestimate the benefits of walking in with $300million to invest instead of your $5k Roth IRA. The return anyone half way competent (or smart enough to hire someone very competent) is going to vastly overshadow whatever return the government is giving you. Even if you invest your annuity, your money is sitting in a low-yield investment while you wait for it to be paid for you.

If you honestly can't keep from f--king up with $300 million, your odds aren't much better with an annuity. Bad financial habits are bad financial habits. They'll screw you over at $10 million a year just as easily as they screw you at $30k a year. Plenty of 1%ers are still working at 65 and 70 because they couldn't pull of something as basic as retirement...

 

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