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keep maybe $100M for myself / the family spend the rest of my life giving away the rest of it - it would be rewarding to start / support some foundations for charitable causes -------------------------------------- Proverbs 27:17 - As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. | |||
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McNoob |
Build my fortress of solitude  "We've done four already, but now we're steady..." | |||
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The real question is do we have a good team of accountants and lawyers here I can tap into when I win? I figured at the least I’ll need to set up some sort of trust to insulate myself from both taxes and shyster lawyers and those who hire shyster lawyers. God, Guns, and Guts made this country....let's keep all three | |||
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Now in Florida |
I'm surprised the jackpot is still at $1.6 billion. I imagine it will go up before the drawing tonight. Another interesting point: rising interest rates have lowered the cash value of the prize. The $1.586 Billion jackpot in 2016 had a cash value of around $985MM. Tonight's $1.6 Billion jackpot has a cash value of $904 million. In my state, the after-tax cash prize would be about $570MM. The wrinkle is that there could be multiple winners (there were 3 winners of the PowerBall $1.5 billion jackpot). Odds are 1 in approximately 303,000,000. But because I'm not the grinch who stole Christmas, I'll play along. My service dog non-profit is about to begin a capital campaign to allow us to buy some land and build a new facility. I would end it before it got started. New house, a couple of cars and a NetJets share. A couple decent sized donations to favorite causes. The rest goes into a family office (run by me) to be invested with much of the income being distributed to various charities and causes as well as supporting my family. And, of course, the mother of all karmas on SF. The flaw in my plan is that it requires one to buy a ticket. | |||
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BBQ Sauce for Everyone! |
I would set up between a third and a half to ensure income for my family. The rest I would disburse where I think it will do the most good. Putting strippers through college... that kind of good. "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." Albert Einstein | |||
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1. get a good lawyer 2. buy a large area of land in the Mountains of NC so that our families could all live on the compound 3. build homes for all said family 4. build a range for me & the FIL to open a USPSA/range equal to Talladega CMP's range 5. and the obvious one would be to build a boonker lastly, donate so much money to the Shriner's Hospitals they would name the wing after my brother who the helped when he was a kid. And then set up an account to help fund them (Shriner's) in perpetuity "Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.” Robert A. Heinlein “You may beat me, but you will never win.” sigmonkey-2020 “A single round of buckshot to the torso almost always results in an immediate change of behavior.” Chris Baker | |||
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Cash option. Lawyer (Set up a trust) Accountant Financial planner Then I disappear. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Yidn, shreibt un fershreibt" "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind." -Bomber Harris | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money  |
Way to be Darth! I'm in! It'll be epic. If I win... I'll do the same for all of my SIGforum friends. Party on, Wayne! Party on, Darth!  "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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Exactly. | |||
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Not really from Vienna |
Get my old house painted. New roof, too, maybe. | |||
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| Speling Champ |
Find Rachel with Card Services and have her whacked. New carpet upstairs. | |||
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I’m calling jallen! War Eagle! | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
You guys gave no idea how expensive it is being rich. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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Nullus Anxietas |
Two? Ha! And blow. Don't forget the blow. And good Scotch and Bourbon by the barrel.
Now there's a plan Only screw the drawing. A free commemorative Sig for every participant I think those would have to be 10mm Sigs, btw  "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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Make it rain | |||
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But many of us would sure enjoy going broke for the chance at it. God, Guns, and Guts made this country....let's keep all three | |||
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thin skin can't win |
Funny. You only have integrity once. - imprezaguy02 | |||
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| Eye on the Silver Lining |
I’m in the disappearing group. I agree, I’ve no idea how much it costs to be rich, but I’d definitely be reinvesting after contributing to causes I felt were worthy.This message has been edited. Last edited by: irreverent, __________________________ "Trust, but verify." | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower  |
I'd give certain people in my life a substantial check on the condition that they sign an agreement to never ask me for another penny. then... I'd quietly buy every internet gun forum in the United States, no matter what the cost. then... I'd throw the biggest party you've ever seen, for SIGforum members. I'd fly in all those who want to attend, all expenses paid. then... I'd do whatever I want, whenever I want, within the boundaries of the law, of course. ____________________________________________________ "I am your retribution." - Donald Trump, speech at CPAC, March 4, 2023 | |||
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| Music's over turn out the lights  |
Challenge accepted! David W. Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. -Sophocles | |||
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