Powerball. What could you do with a 425 million dollar lottery win?
 

Aside from the question. Wow this powerball amount is getting huge at a now whopping 425 million dollars. Imagine how it would be to win all that (Really 160 million after lump sum, but seriously anything over a 1,000 is golden).

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After taxes, there probably wouldn't be much of it left anyway...

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Taxes will take, what, %35 of the lump sum? More if you live in a state that has income tax.

So, just to put a number grabbed out of air, $150million net.

I'd help Elon get to Mars, with the condition that I get a first class seat on the mission.

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With a $425 million dollar jackpot, a single winner’s one-time lump sum cash payout would be $278,300,000.

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Depending on which state you purchased the ticket in, your state taxes can range from a low of 0% (California and some other states don't tax in-state lottery winnings) to a high of 10.8% (New Jersey).

Federal taxes would be 25% of the lump sum or $69,575,000. New Jersey (highest) state withholdings would be $30,056,400.

In California (0%), you'd take home $208,725,000. In New Jersey (10.8%), you'd take home $178,668,600 (not counting back taxes, outstanding student loans, mandated child support payments, etc. which they would collect as well).

Sounds like a pretty damn good chunk of change to me (especially since I live in California).

http://www.inquisitr.com/411183/powe...million-prize/
http://www.afterlotto.com/lottery_calculator.html

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Not enough money to build a star ship, so I'd buy a couple of businesses, properties, then retire and go see the world.

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Anything I want.....

....However, statistically speaking, this jackpot on Powerball is a lot less impressive than the same jackpot would be on Mega Millions, since Powerball tickets cost twice as much.

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Invest/save 90% of it. Give some money to my immediate family so that they're taken care of. Then I'd probably quit my job and move somewhere completely different (and someplace with a warmer, dry climate). Buy a house (no McMansion or anything... just something nice and comfortable) and a couple of cars. Do some traveling. Eventually, I'd probably use some of the money for philanthropy and also donate quite a bit to animal welfare and environmental conservation.

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What could you do with a 425 million dollar lottery win

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Buy a house and a nicer car. I would try to start my own business, or maybe buy out the local comic shop.

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Destroy my enemies, and then finance Firefly/Serenity sequels.

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I like this plan best of all.

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Suddenly find myself with friends I never knew I had.

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That's the worst part about suddenly coming in to money. If I did, I would move into a completely different area, with people that don't know me or my name, keeping in contact with only a few close friends. I would never mention the money until people actually became my friends.

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^Rule #1 about winning the lottery is keeping your mouth shut and asking the paper not to publish your name. Lottery winners would be a lot happier if they followed that advice.

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I would

1) buy my house
2) buy each of my sons, one of my sisters and my two best friends a house each and pay off my other sister's mortgage.
3) Start up trust funds for each of my sons
4) invest a couple of million so I would have a good annual income.

All that would account for about 6 million of the winnings. After that I would use the rest to start up a private charitable fund.