Florida man has both cars break down, wins $1 million in lottery

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sully16 — Fri, 28 May 2021 09:59:15 GMT

Great story, glad he can get new cars.

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billybucks — Thu, 27 May 2021 15:35:55 GMT

890k minus 37% leaves you with a paltry 560,700. Ok, house prices in Jacksonville are low, real low. You can get a decent house for 300k in a less than desirable neighborhood maybe. The cars maybe 60k for two of them. So I suppose it would work but I would rethink it and just put a down payment on the house and save the rest.

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CDanaT — Thu, 27 May 2021 14:50:24 GMT

You better win this year because next year, you know who takes a bigger bite of that newly acquired wealth.

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rcbbuckeye — Thu, 27 May 2021 13:37:39 GMT

Not knowing what his deductions are, if any, but I usually just figure on a million dollar prize like MM or PB (or the jackpot) that federal tax would be 37%.

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Bleudog101 — Thu, 27 May 2021 12:31:27 GMT

$890K BEFORE Federal taxes...OK mathematicians out there, what would he end up after his tax bite? Still whatever it is much better off than he was before winning

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godisgood — Thu, 27 May 2021 12:10:10 GMT

Well, if the take home is around $890,000 then a $400,000 dollar home and $100,000 on cars would still leave him with $390,000.

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increase — Thu, 27 May 2021 09:33:15 GMT

Great story with a very happy ending.

I may get me a couple of scratchers today.

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MsBee18 — Thu, 27 May 2021 02:02:02 GMT

You may want to consider moving to Florida. Florida sells millions of tickets at $5 a pop. It's nothing for them to pay those measly prizes; and still find education too.

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noise-gate — Thu, 27 May 2021 00:46:59 GMT

Oh Winterhug, to further leave your heart in ruins:

We have a $10.00 Set for life scratcher that has a top prize of $20,000 a month for 25 years.

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Mata Garbo — Thu, 27 May 2021 00:05:07 GMT

So Happy for this guy and his wife. Car breaks down and you win a million bucks. The last time my car broke down I stepped out to take a look and saw a car coming from the other direction heading straight for me. It was a drunk driver who had come across the grass lane divider and was head my way. I heard people blowing their horns at me because they thought that i did not see the car coming but I did and jumped into a ditch. The drunk driver hit the front of my jeep, but the impact did more dam... [ More ]

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noise-gate — Wed, 26 May 2021 23:35:24 GMT

That's nothing winterhug: We have a $5.00 Set for life scratcher out here who's top prize is $3,000,000 or $10,000 a month for 25 years

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winterhug — Wed, 26 May 2021 23:26:03 GMT

Wow, I still can't get over $5 Florida scratch-offs having a top prizes of 1 million dollars. My state $5 scratch-offs top prizes are 50K. The $20 scratch-offs have 1 million dollar tops prizes and the $30 scratch-offs have 2 million dollar top prizes

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Bleudog101 — Wed, 26 May 2021 16:11:10 GMT

No state tax on his big win

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billybucks — Wed, 26 May 2021 15:49:10 GMT

Well that prize is already spent. Not that there is anything wrong with buying a house and two new cars but that will easily cost him the whole prize. A halfway decent house goes for around 400k down there and the cars will cost him the remainder.

Florida man has both cars break down, wins $1 million in lottery

Lottery Post — Wed, 26 May 2021 14:50:55 GMT

Big win could not have come at a better time

By Kate Northrop

A man who had been having rather unfortunate car troubles finally experienced a lucky turn of events when he won a $1 million top prize from a Florida Lottery scratch-off game.

Curtis Fuller, 38, of Jacksonville, was having a streak of bad luck when both his and his wife's cars broke down within days of each other. However, he was served up an instant bout of good karma when he decided to play the Florida Lottery's 50X The Ca... [ More ]