It may be better to switch over to Powerball this week for a better chance at a larger win.
Invest balance at a 3% annual return.
That will be over $20 Million/year gross and $12 Million/year after tax.
If you don't recognize that your family's safety and security is more important than all that money, expect to destroy a few lives.
WAIT to claim and maximize your secrecy/security.
You can DOUBLE your odds, if you buy TWO tickets !
My wife and I were joking that if we won both the Mega Millions and the Powerball that there would be a National investigation. Then like clockwork an article appeared on the web stating that your chance of winning both are one in 88 quadrillion.
The wife and talked about it for fun. We would buy an island in the Caribbean with some of the money.
Venezuelan bonds, baby. It could be the next Zimbabwe.
https://youtu.be/sAO0owc4xeY
Invest it in houses and lots.
Houses of ill repute and lots of whisky.
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You don’t win the whole thing, the state takes about half right off the bat, plus you’re taxed on your portion. Even at that, it’s still a lot of money.
You could buy 7.2 miles of California high-speed rail.
Yes kids, that’s how much that socialist monstrosity costs.
That's the brilliance of lottery commercials, selling you the dream and convincing you to spend your money on something you will never get back. And giddy as all get out until the drawing leaves you a loser.......
LibWhacker wrote: “It may be better to switch over to Powerball this week for a better chance at a larger win.”
You don’t have to switch. You can ‘invest’ in two tickets.
BTW, there was an interesting caller on Rush back in the mid-90s. He told the story of winning big. I forgot where he won but that state provided a 2 or 3 day class on what to do next. One recommendation was to avoid going home. He was told there would be maybe 100 people in his front yard waiting for him: real estate agents, car salesmen, travel agents, etc. He was told that if he went home for the dog, etc., these people would follow him. He was told to get a friend to retrieve the things of value, pictures, dogs, etc and keep them for him. Said he would get two duffle bags of mailings a week.
He said he would get phone calls at 2 AM from people wanting money. Typical call: “You may not remember me but my sister dated a guy in your 11th grade english class. Her neighbor’s brother’s second cousin’s girl friends sister was in a very bad car wreck and needs $20K to pay the hospital. Can you help?”
That’s why if I win, I will simply disappear.
If there are ‘junior’ prizes, I’ll settle for a mere $100K.
We would be able to start construction on a new church.
My dad viewed large sums of money as a curse. He said you would constantly have to worry about the safety of your kids and live behind walls with security guards. He and Mom had everything paid for when they retired and a basic but still comfortable (for them) amount of money coming in. He had an old pick up truck and rambled around in the woods whenever he wanted. He did not have any bumper stickers on his truck, but the one about ‘God, Guns and Guts’ building this country pretty much summed up his beliefs.
Snicker...
I’d help out this Nigerian prince I’m in email contact with.
Wife and I discussed just for fun. We did get a set of tickets - again knowing it’s for the fun of the dream.
We agreed that we would setup trusts for our parents, brothers, sisters, and our girls. Build my dream house (I’ve had plans with a 2 story library drawn up for years). Get a apartment/condo in Japan. Take 1M for the rest of our toys and do some traveling. Invest the rest at 3-4% return.
The only additional thing I want to do is build a true cathedral...I mean old style stone, gothic structure with flying buttresses, gargoyles, etc Unassociated with any single type of Christianity. Just the basics....like C.S. Lewis discussed in Mere Christianity. All to glorify Him since no matter what I do here it all eventually crumbles to dust. She said ‘ok’.