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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]finecraft
(1,213 posts)119. I would build an apartment complex for homeless Veterans
complete with an on-site medical and dental clinic.
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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