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Money and the Crime of KidnapingReply
Being physically harmed due to becoming suddenly wealthy is the biggest threat facing lottery players. You should consider a visit to reality, or at least find a more realistic definition of threat . Winning the lottery may result in a very small statistical increase in the risk of physical harm from strangers, but winning the lottery does almost nothing to reduce all of the risks that everybody is exposed to. Of the very small subset of lottery winners who have been physically harmed as a
Feb 12, 2026, 4:24 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Are you playing Mega Millions with the $5.00 per play?Reply
I guess they would have liked paying 70% in taxes like back in 1980. Since I'm not a moron, I'd love to have paid taxes in the 70% bracket. To do that I'd have needed taxable income of more than $215,400, which is equivalent to about 844k today. Also because I'm not a moron I know that I'd only have paid 70% on the taxable income in excess of that 844k (in today's dollars). Still, even if I'd had to pay 70% on all of that, I'd still have had the equivalent of 253k after taxes, plus whatever
Sep 4, 2025, 7:37 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery Discussion Forum