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In reply to the discussion: So what would you do with the money if you won the Powerball lotto? [View all]Doremus
(7,261 posts)113. Maybe help Animals Asia get a few more bears out of crush cages.
Buy some elephants out of slavery and into refuge. Primates, dogs, cats and all animals out of research labs. Buy all the old, sick, used up horses/livestock on their way to slaughter and give them refuge.
It's nice to dream.
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So what would you do with the money if you won the Powerball lotto? [View all]
davidn3600
Nov 2012
OP
You can likely buy a modest home now if you move to specific locations. nt
bluestate10
Nov 2012
#190
Buy citizenship in a civilized nation and a nice sailing yacht small enough to automate.
Egalitarian Thug
Nov 2012
#6
Ironically, I live in one of, if not the only state in which you can't buy a ticket.
Egalitarian Thug
Nov 2012
#116
They're attracting uncivilized people with boatloads of cash...not terribly civilized, IMO.
MADem
Nov 2012
#81
Open a state of the art animal shelter. Also open a counseling practice where I do a lot of pro bono
Michigan Alum
Nov 2012
#8
Ensure my parents in their 80s have every comfort they could enjoy for the rest of their lives
eShirl
Nov 2012
#11
Actually - I read somewhere that if you establish a trust fund, you don't lose any money
Panasonic
Nov 2012
#140
Give $2 million to my parents, both my sisters, each of my kids..then disappear with the better half
Ghost in the Machine
Nov 2012
#41
You don't think they'd part with DU for a mere $400,000,000 do you? What else is in it for them?
denverbill
Nov 2012
#195
After i get out of surgery from the polar and grizzly bear bites I had received..
truebrit71
Nov 2012
#57
Set up some foundations to fund good works and political causes I think worthy.
northoftheborder
Nov 2012
#58
Employ the services of sex workers and ingest some benzoylmethylecgonine to start with,
slackmaster
Nov 2012
#73
If you take the cash option, you would get about $213 mil after federal taxes.
A HERETIC I AM
Nov 2012
#96
Well, after taxes and such with cash payout I would only get about $190,000,000...
ProdigalJunkMail
Nov 2012
#78
I would only want 4 million after taxes for myself, and another 12million after for family members
graham4anything
Nov 2012
#85
The Thanksgiving holidays really put a demand on me so I'm physically exhausted.
Baitball Blogger
Nov 2012
#104
I'd anonymously pay hospital bills for folks who had children who were very ill, and who
Zorra
Nov 2012
#111
The first thing I'd do is buy myself and everyone else on DU who doesn't have one, a star
KewlKat
Nov 2012
#112
Have a 1,500 foot tall statue of me erected. It will be done in a Soviet-Stalinist style.
Throd
Nov 2012
#115
Pay off our debt, set up mom near me with in home nurse, set up trust funds for our kids and
Blaukraut
Nov 2012
#118
Fund curing/preventing cerebral palsy, autism and decreasing infant mortality -
IdaBriggs
Nov 2012
#120
I would give some to family, and keep some for myself, but I think I would buy up
Cleita
Nov 2012
#126
I would start pumping it back into the economy....spend ...spend....spend....spend...bnuy....consume
bowens43
Nov 2012
#146
I'd go to the bank and make a huge withdrawal in $1 bills, then go
coalition_unwilling
Nov 2012
#149
This commercial runs in the NY NJ area.I would want Elton/Neil Tenant/Lana Del Rey instead of Cyndi
graham4anything
Nov 2012
#163
Make sure I'm set, I'd pay off my friends debts, Set up a scholarship fund for family
thelordofhell
Nov 2012
#168
I don't own tickets. If I did, I would want to win a smaller prize. But if I won the big prize?
bluestate10
Nov 2012
#189
Strange, nobody offered to give it to the federal government to help lower the dept.
oneshooter
Nov 2012
#197