Yep, it’s a con game. You win the lottery but so does the state, the city, the feds, social security, Obamacare and whatever other leeches they can tag on to it. And don’t forget: This is after the state already rakes in a fortune in ticket sales. I mean the odds of winning are something like 200 million to one so you would think just on principle alone they would give the winner a break on the taxes, but noooo...Their rationale is “Well he or she will end up with millions anyway so let’s take as much as we possibly can and then some.” Oh yeah and BTW they just recently raised the odds of winning even higher. You use to have to pick out 6 winning numbers from numbers 1 to 54. Now they raised it from 1 to 74 so there will be less winners from now on.
“Well he or she will end up with millions anyway so let’s take as much as we possibly can and then some.”
Reminds me a little of the time when I was in my 20s when I won $1700 at the racetrack and the teller tried to pocket $100 by shortchanging me. She probably figured I was so happy and nervous I wouldn’t notice. Then of course she could just say it was an honest mistake. I was nervous mainly because I didn’t want people seeing that I had won all that money. I wanted to get away from the window as soon as I could after I cashed the ticket.