N.Y. man's lottery fortune hurts home town state aid

Comment #12

HaveABall — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 20:51:04 GMT

Hum ... Richard has to move to a wealthier place this year to enjoy the winner's floating experience fully! I hope his neighbors aren't sending vibes his way causing him to feel loved-less. Shucks

Comment #11

Cassie8620 — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 15:31:42 GMT

IKR(i know right) Just Andy 1970

Exactly... I know right. geez.

Comment #10

Bleudog101 — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 15:29:37 GMT

Had to read the article twice in disbelief. So one man's fortune and punish the whole town? Maybe New York could do what Massachusetts does and split it amongst all the towns and cities there. One town not too far from where I grew up doesn't have a lottery terminal so of course folks cried fowl on that one.

Comment #9

Soledad — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 03:02:45 GMT

No silly of course not, but sometimes I use whatever mine I get to help someone. Powerball or Moneyball whatever,, at that point it wouldn't matter to me. Honestly it wouldn't. I'd be boasting not gloating. It's just paper in my eyes. You paint with paper, get my drift.

Comment #8

noise-gate — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 23:20:31 GMT

.. have you left money behind to the unfortunate few in your districts, after each of your past moves? Do tell

Comment #7

Soledad — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 21:38:33 GMT

That's a weird thing to say. Gloating or taunting is not flattering behavior. Me? I'd donate the money , the 300,000 whatever, to the school district, and then move. Plain and simple. But I've always moved a lot.

Comment #6

zephbe — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 21:28:32 GMT

Seems like a problem NY hasn't addressed since 2012. Why not treat the lottery win as an outlier and not use it in averaging income? Winning isn't the problem. Accounting for the win is the problem.

Comment #5

justAndy1970 — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 19:34:50 GMT

What more does NY want? They took him for $10 million in tax deductions on his winnings. They can't use that tax, oh yeah we are talking about NY here.

Comment #4

Toronto — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 19:02:13 GMT

Sounds like sour grapes from the people that didn't win. Hope he drives his hummer around in circles while the school kids, in their tattered clothes carrying falling apart textbooks from the 1980s, watch during recess.

Comment #3

noise-gate — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 16:16:49 GMT

Someone is going to have to suck it up. You can't avoid breaking some eggs if you going to make an omelette. It's a snip if you do, snip if you don't situation.Oh well..

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Comment #2

music* — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 16:07:56 GMT

I have seen Richard Loveless on a You Tube video. He is a proud Union electrician. His close friends were there when Yolanda Vega, New York lottery representative, presented the oversized and fake check to him.

Comment #1

Raven62 — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 14:59:15 GMT

Without a Doubt: Taxation is Complicated

N.Y. man's lottery fortune hurts home town state aid

Lottery Post — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 14:45:27 GMT

Good fortune smiled on Richard Loveless in 2015, when the retired electrician won a $42.5 million lottery prize, but those winnings are bringing headaches to the Port Byron School District.

Loveless' winnings pushed up the school district's total wealth, as calculated by the state's school aid formulas. It bumped Port Byron from being one of New York's poorest school districts to one that's almost middle class, said Neil O'Brien, Port Byron's superintendent.

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