Isn't rule number 1 of lottery winning like ... keep a low profile, and don't speak to any reporters? Or are these names always publicly announced anyway?
As the article mentions, Oregon requires the names of lottery winners to be made public. Most states have laws like this so that it's harder to quietly rig the lottery to go to friends of yours every time.
kind of an interesting thought along the lines of karma in the pooling of public payments into a fund that comes out the other end funding experimental medical procedures for a very willing volunteer. A wild route to for ethical research but works for us all I suppose.
It's amazing how big these jackpots have become over the past decade, and especially post-Covid. Trillion-dollars of debt and billion-dollar jackpots go in hand, yet the dollar remains strong contrary to endless prediction of its collapse. Rather than the sucking sound warned by Perot, it's more like the inflating sound.
I thought the “giant sucking sound” of Perot was referring to good manufacturing jobs which would leave under NAFTA. And didn’t that come true to some extent?
It's so funny that Forbes seem to mistaken Portland Oregon for Portland Maine? They quote their own article that says "Maine Winner Nabs $1.35 Billion Mega Millions Jackpot.."
I was doubting myself but the apnews article shows a video with Oregon Lottery and mentions of Salem and Oregon laws... I'm pretty sure this isn't in Maine haha
and the prevalence of gambling. i visited the dominican republic in 2014 and was apalled to see gambling stations in every rural town. now i see fanduel on every billboard in america
From what I read, the best cancer treatments money can buy even without insurance are on the order of single digit millions of dollars.
Probably some dieticians and personal therapists thrown into the mix would help. Let's call that another million dollars.
But - realistically - even the ultra wealthy die of cancer. All the money in the world might not be enough. At least if all the money ends up being blown, it will at least have given him a fighting chance.
> $1.3 billion
> ...
> After estate tax: $200 million
What's the most amazing is that with such a confiscatory scheme in place, the monkeys at the helm still managed to create 130% public debt and are concerned that they cannot sustain the debt payments anymore.
And others shall push to make more of what didn't work: more taxes, we'll solve everything with more taxes, for the gubernment knows best!
I think this was meant to be a dark comment. They only apply upon death when wealth is being passed to heirs. However, he's married, so in the unfortunate event of his death, AFAIK his wife would -not- have to pay any estate taxes.
Depends on how long he has to live and set things up to work around it, but Oregon has an up to 16% estate tax + federal estate tax of up to 40%. Kicks in after 16 million or so.
There are plenty of ways the wealthy can avoid or reduce estate taxes -- giving most of it to charity is one unselfish way. The problem with lottery winners, as someone else has mentioned, is that they're often easy prey for grifters, so they're going to have to try to be as anonymous as possible when finding help.
Dude got a 200 million check for doing absolutely nothing (in the grand scheme of things) and the state got a bunch of money from state sanctioned gambling.
I don’t really object to taxation of winnings like this in principle. It’s knowing that said money is essentially being thrown into the financial black hole that is the United States government that bothers me. The unending waste of it all, and yet people want to give even more money to them.
You’re incredibly far off base. I’m not a libertarian in the least. I’m all for well run government that uses its money to help its citizens. Unfortunately we don’t have that kind of government. But if you want give even more of your paycheck to help fuel the war machine and fund bloated useless department of redundancy departments be my guest.
