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Old 10-22-18, 04:52 PM   #1
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Default What would you do with $1.6 billion dollars?

The Mega Millions jackpot drawing on Oct. 23 has soared to $1.6 billion

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/current...its-really-go/

Plus the California Powerball winning lotto ticket is now up to $620 million someone said that winning the lotto when it is this big is like putting everyone's name in America (man, woman and child) in one of those big a big dimpsty dumpster's and then reaching in and they pick your name. 😯

I would buy every business in my small town and rename it Quatro Valley
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Old 10-22-18, 04:54 PM   #2
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I would probably spend way too much time saying no to people.
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Old 10-22-18, 05:46 PM   #3
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First of all I would give Neal and Subsim a huge contribution.

Then I would buy an island and invite those(not to many) I like and live there for the rest of my life. and hopefully my friends will do the same.
And of course
With lots of animal around me.

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Old 10-22-18, 06:20 PM   #4
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I would probably spend way too much time saying no to people.
I would do the opposite, I would reserve $50 million for myself and then have a ball rewarding people I appreciate.
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Old 10-22-18, 06:45 PM   #5
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I thought the tax bite would be higher ... perhaps 50%, but this says different.

I don't think I would take the thirty (30) year option ... we don't even know if the ground we stand on will still be here in 30 years.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/taxe...ots/ar-BBOJ1gl

Here's the tax bite on $1.6 billion Mega Millions and $620 million Powerball jackpots

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The immediate cash option for Mega Millions is $904 million. The federal withholding would reduce that by $217 million. For the $354.3 million Powerball lump sum, it would mean $85 million getting shaved off the top.
The chance of winning both lotteries is at least 1 in 88 quadrillion (that's 88 followed by 15 zeros).
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Well.....I could use a new pair of shoes.
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Finally buy Jim that deodorant.
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Truth be told, probably spend my way into an early grave. But it would be a wild ride!
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Everything would be put in order, and I'd blow this pop stand.


Oh yeah, I kind of liked the idea of those three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri so there'd be some sarcastic billboards showing up anywhere they might trigger a certain audience.
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I would probably donate a lot of it to Russian Navy, they really could use extra money.
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Old 10-23-18, 06:45 AM   #11
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Set up my family and friends for life and give the rest to those mostly in need.
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I would set up the environmental organization "GreenWar", order and buy a type 214mod from TKMS (including the 300 million maintenance order), and seriously threaten the Japanese whaling fleet first.

Then I become known as buccaneer "Crazy duck" and create a great mess on all oceans. Arrgh!!!



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I would have a big extravaganza party for subsim members only in Hawaii

I would of course foot the bill and pay for everything round trip plane fare , hotel, breakfast, lunch and dinner, transportation trips to the USS Missouri and the submarine on display there.

Then I would get Reece drunk and entice his wife to run off with me to Hong Kong
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I would probably donate a lot of it to Russian Navy, they really could use extra money.
How can one then imagine this donation...
Will there be a select set of six sheet-gold coated heavyweight torpedoes with handwritten insignia of "ikalugin" on Putin's birthday?!?


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I would spend a bunch of it on cheap women and expensive booze. The rest of the money I would probably waste
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