This Is What The Powerball Ticket Line Looked Like In Nevada
Seven years ago, America was promised hope and change. The change never came, but at least there is still hope, and it comes in the form of a voluntary tax known as the Powerball lottery. The only problem: it happens to be everyone else's hope too, and to even get a chance to buy a ticket, one has to wait in lines such as this one on the California-Nevada border.
The line to buy Powerball tickets at the Nevada to California border line today is UNREAL!!!! ???? pic.twitter.com/prehiIeM3i
— Dan Fleyshman (@DanFleyshman) January 13, 2016
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The stats on lottery winners are horrific. Not just suicide but murder and going broke as well. Poor people make very bad rich people. Then there is the reality that a million dollars isn't shit anymore. They go and buy a half a million dollar house and they are pretty much already done.
If you won a million you could probably buy two houses and rent one out and you better keep working. Unless you live somewhere where the cost of living is super low. If you went to Vietnam or something you could stretch it out.
I will wager that not one of the winners will set up a Tax Free Foundation and pay themselves a handsome wage to administer the foundation.
That is how you avoid the taxes and keep the money.
The poor, most poor that is as I need qualify my assertion, know nothing about doing that.
moral of the story:
many are poor not because they don't have money, but because they can't have money
Au contraire monsieur, I'm drinkin' a beer right now and can tell you that I made the best of choices. Don't care if you gave me a jillion dollars (as in yeah, I'd take them, duh), I'd still be here, drinkin mah beer. Yerp.
It´s like Wall St. but you have better chances and they treat you with more respect.
Looks like the zombie chain gang.
I think a giant TURD, is going to be dumped in/on London.
I got my ass handed to me...
Any body pick up their ticket in Chino Hills here?
I did not win.
I hit the Powerball on 2 of my five plays - but only matched one number. What it shows is how looooooong the odds are...
No win here. $30 invested for a zero return.
It is just worthless fiatskis anyway.
I was watching "American Crime" on ABC tonight and the local news cut the ending off and pretended like it was 10:00 and time for the news so they could show the PowerBall fucksticks. The thing that got me was the shit-eating grin on their stupid fucking faces as they went to the powerball "reveal". It just pisses me off to DVR a show and sit and watch it for an hour only to be fucked out of an ending.
I'm glad someone won so we don't have to hear another fuckign word about it.
CLOWNZ Where is the thoughtful commentary? Obviously another event screwed up by govt meddling.
Why I buy ammo and guns.
Looks like desperation to me. Do these people want to be rich or do they just want a shot at making it. Seriously this place is turning into a 3rd world country and we are at depressionary unemployment levels. There are 40 million on EBT.
Apparently that is what "Hope" looks like, desperation and delusion.
I have lived in Chino Hills and have gone to the Seven Eleven where the big one was sold ... I should have never moved
Obama's Hope and Change
With a total of 292 million combinations, and a ticket price of $2, one could bet on all combinations for $584 million. Assuming no one else won the jackpot, it would be 2 to 1 return on investment. Not bad, IMHO.
One can always dream.
If there was no taxes :(
I believe the jackpot was 1.4 billion, or about ~950 million in cash after taxes, so my calculation is more or less correct.
Actually if one could do that then one could write off all of the gambling losses against that of the gambling wins to diminsh the Capital Gains tax owed.
Betting on all combinations was done before, I've read about it in some book on probability, can't remember the title right now. Their biggest concern was that someone else would win the jackpot too, in which case they would have to split the prize, which would be a loss.
Gambling winnings are considered as income, not cap gains. That's more money to feed the beast.
http://www.literaturecollection.com/a/orwell/1984/8/
"They were talking about the Lottery. Winston looked back when he had gone thirty metres. They were still arguing, with vivid, passionate faces. The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention. It was probable that there were some millions of proles for whom the Lottery was the principal if not the only reason for remaining alive. It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant. " 1984, George Orwell, Chapter 8.
Orwell was a prophet.
Gunstore lines were just as long 2 years ago.
Scene from 1930, updated.
Dance contests.
Wow. Talk about desparation.
There needs to be a chart overlay of historical powerball jackpot total overlayed ontop of labor force participation rate lol with the recession years highlighted.
Sometimes a group of lemmings is big enough to attract other lemmings. Then that bigger group of lemmings attracts even more lemmings. In this case the lemmings are buying Powerball tickets. Go Pro, Cow Chipotle, the SPX, it's all the same thing. The truth is every one of us is a lemming. Successful lemmings buy when the line is short and sell when it's long.
The few, smart lemmings are storing up food and working on their burrow for the Winter, wondering why all the dumbasses are running toward the cliff in the cold.
damn, i guess this means i will lose the deposit i put down on that G5 charter for my celebration party.
Hey Bunkie, that $30 you spent on Powerball tickets you could have spent on a subscription to the D.Gartman newletter; about the same odds of 270 million to 1 for success.
www.traderzoo.mobi
Whoever wins is cursed. Good luck.
Winning ticket becomes most expensive substance in the universe.
Once in a while purchase is still cheap entertainment and better than any Hollywood crap.
Cashier at Blue Bird liquor store in Hawthorne CA once told me, after the last powerball, that he had a calls as far as San Diego asking for directions.
Read while ago: in Cuba, lottery as one or only way out of poverty made people obsessed with "clues" like car licence plates, building addresses or just about anything that some kind of numbers can be wrestled from.
My early morning musings.
Did anyone see where these f-tards went to a 7-11 store that sold a winning ticket? What the fuck is that about? Hey retards, the winner isn't showing up at the 7-11 to claim the prize. Nation is full retard.
...wait until the Asians arrive en masse, talk about Gambling ADDICTS.
Like you have never seen. PowerBall is child's game compared to many Asian pastimes.
Try this....kon Tai fabricate high flying rockets and launch them into the sky, betting on everything conceivable about a short flight. Apogee, duration of flight, everything! They have a good time doing it as well. See for yourself.
Nothing like booze, Tai women, cigarettes, gun powder and the chance of a big pay-off!
We are talking heights of 36,000 feet, more than enough to interfere with commercial aviation. Cost per rocket is neglible. Strapping on a gps guided munition a no brainer....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zad8RuKCl0s
The only people who won't win are the ones who won't play. One 2$ ticket is all you need with those odds "just in case" you are that lucky fucker.
you really don't even know enough about technology to know how to stitch a panorama together? sad .....
What do you win, an IOU from the broke U.S. gov't? Not that I should say anything, I gamble on hockey and football once in while.
I've seen lines that long just for a concert with no chance of winning anything.
why didn't they just buy their ticket online?
Look at all these folks just dying to help the goverment get back nearly half of every dollar they didn't already steal from them through excessive taxation.
Is that the ONLY store selling tickets in Nevada? Geeze, go somewhere to get your ticket. The grocery store kioske probably has no one in line.