What would you do?

[Makc_RU]

I would punish some people. Find out who some people are, buy an airplane ticket, show up at their doorsteps, break their arms and make them take 3-5 months vacation from internet.

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[Enoch]

I'm quite surprised about the high taxes on lottery gains too, especially considering that it's apparently nearing the 40% whereas some candidates for the US elections are known to pay less than 15% (15% is probably the lowest possible in France, by the way). I don't think lottery gains are taxed in France either, I've had the impression than when they tell you you win 30 million Euros, you really win that much.

But anyway, what I'd do with the money? I guess I'd buy a couple of sweet cars and get a nice enough house/apartment, either in France or in England. It won't be something horribly expensive, though, I'm not that fond of luxury. Of course, I'd travel a whole lot. And probably never work.

I would punish some people. Find out who some people are, buy an airplane ticket, show up at their doorsteps, break their arms and make them take 3-5 months vacation from internet.

That's assuming you can break someone's arm (and know how to buy an airplane ticket).

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[Omicron]

Invest and get myself & closest family comfortable yet quite normal life. Through owning a castle is tempting.

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[Fletcher]

Oh yeah, get my grandfather retired, he's 65 and works in a steel mill as a welder damnit. He's earned a rest! Been doing it for 25 years.

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[Loken]

I'd buy a house, nothing particularly fancy, and then I'd just live off of the interest on the rest.

Too many people would waste it all at once.

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[Makc_RU]

I would organize a group of peeps and develop freaking FREELANCER 3 already or I would take your moms out !

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[Gytrash]

Live in Australia, all lottery wins are tax free and paid immediately.

Get the whole 500 million

Get a house

Get a car

Get my dream computer (Not use it to full capacity)

Make Buy freelancer source code

Bank money, (Roughly 400 million left assuming about 75 million for Freelancer code :crazy:)

Use $17 million a year interest to invest into property and make more money

Buy a plane and hire a pilot

Buy the MLP franchise

Bring back Lauren Faust

[Agmen of Eladesor]

Live in Australia, all lottery wins are tax free and paid immediately.

Unfortunately, it's money earned in the United States. So you'd still be responsible for 30% U.S. Federal taxes. You wouldn't have to pay double (or any) Australian taxes at all. (Note that this is from Article 21, paragraph 1, of the Tax Treaty between the US and Australia, signed August 6, 1982. And yes, I do like reading this sort of stuff for fun.)

Oh, and the jackpot is now up to $540 million, and the drawing isn't until tomorrow night - so it could reach $550 - $575 million.

On a personal note, since I didn't say too much - here in the U.S., you may gift people with up to $10,000 per year and they don't have to report it as income. Yet even half of that amount can make a huge difference in someone's life.

Since I'd take the cash option, and end up with around $260 mil, even at a conservative investment return of 5%, you're looking at $9,000,000 in after tax income per year ad inifinitum. So going out and helping 1,000 people per year by gifting them with $5,000 each - or doing that 'random act of charity' and going into Wal-Mart and paying off the Christmas layaways of $250 or less for 4,000 families wouldn't even begin to make a dent in the fortune.

Cruise around the world.

Buy my own B-17 (since I think that's the coolest airplane ever).

Obviously you'd have to have some full time security people.

Play in the WSOP and every other major poker tournament.

Make a decent sized donation to IU Medical Center in Indianapolis. The last 27 years of my life have been a gift from them.

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Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.

[Lennox]

To be honest...I don't know what I would do with such an high amount of money. What I would try to do would be to keep being the same person as before in case I would be the lucky one. :/

[Ayatolah]

keep it under my bed, banks are the house of thieves, and... dunno, give up my job and like like a Marajah? dunno..

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