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| 13 Jan 2016 06:57 PM |
| When they could be spending it sorting out the flawed global economy or helping starving people in third world countries. |
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| 13 Jan 2016 06:58 PM |
| You need to understand how much more profit they make by all of the ticket sales |
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| 13 Jan 2016 06:58 PM |
| Pretty sure the ticket sales won't add up to more than a billion. |
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| 13 Jan 2016 06:59 PM |
| You think a capitalist society would ever spend that much money on foreign aid? |
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| 13 Jan 2016 06:59 PM |
| They do have taxes on the winning money |
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| 13 Jan 2016 07:00 PM |
@Niva Doesn't have to be foreign aid, they could be spending it on sorting out their own god damn economy and helping homeless people, etc. |
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| 13 Jan 2016 07:00 PM |
| That's not how the lottery works... |
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| 13 Jan 2016 07:00 PM |
why spend it on others countries when the US is trillions of dollars in debt.
http://www.roblox.com/Who-are-you-calling-pinhead-item?id=18603665 |
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| 13 Jan 2016 07:02 PM |
"Pretty sure the ticket sales won't add up to more than a billion." Let's say that each powerball ticket costs $2. Divide 1.2 billion by 2. That's 600 million. There are easily over 600 million sales. |
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| 13 Jan 2016 07:02 PM |
"Doesn't have to be foreign aid, they could be spending it on sorting out their own god damn economy and helping homeless people, etc."
Do you really trust the us government to have the best intention for its citizens
This isn't 2007 |
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| 13 Jan 2016 07:03 PM |
| Yes but, that's only over the amount you said. That's still a far amount from even hitting 1 billion. |
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| 13 Jan 2016 07:05 PM |
| There were a ton of sales for the 900 million and no one won so it was redone |
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| 13 Jan 2016 07:08 PM |
"Yes but, that's only over the amount you said. That's still a far amount from even hitting 1 billion." In my example, it has hit 1 billion. Do you not know basic math? |
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| 13 Jan 2016 07:10 PM |
"Pretty sure the ticket sales won't add up to more than a billion."
for this powerball tickets have sold up to around 2 billion so far
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| 13 Jan 2016 07:10 PM |
| Considering you never mentioned 1 billion in your explanation, it wasn't clear enough. But for $1.5bil, there is a 0% chance for profit. This is basically equivalent of throwing money out a window. |
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| 13 Jan 2016 07:12 PM |
"Considering you never mentioned 1 billion in your explanation, it wasn't clear enough." Did you seriously not read it, just skim for "1 billion"? I expected better for you. 600 million x 2 = 1.2 billion. Simple math. Since there are lots of rich people investing in thousands of them, that adds to the large amounts of sales. |
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| 13 Jan 2016 07:12 PM |
| Tickets expire if no one wins, so the amount of money gained from the old powerball drawling stays the same pretty much |
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| 13 Jan 2016 07:13 PM |
| Ah. My apologies, I must of skipped that part. |
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