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HeadyBeersBrah t1_jb592ep wrote

Reply to comment by IamSauerKraut in Mass. man to buy house in Maine after winning $4M scratch ticket prize by DrMcMeow

I did read the article and that's not what it says at all. I was just trying to not be a dick about it. Try it some time.

>instant ticket game prize in the form of a one-time payment of $2,600,000, according to the Massachusetts Lottery Commission.

He still has to pay taxes on it. His actual take home will be closer to 1.5M.

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IamSauerKraut t1_jb5ax86 wrote

Again, for the person who is bad at observing the obvious: man wins $4 million. There is the photo of him holding the fake $4 million check showing how much the jackpot was. After taxes, he takes home $2.6 million of that $4 million.

Question: What happened to the $1.4 million that he won but did not take home?

Answer: The $1.4 million he did not take home is the amount that was withheld for taxes.

Gratuitous observation: while we hear the rumors of double taxation, this man was not taxed twice on the same lottery winnings. The state/feds will have to be happy with the $1.4 million that was withheld.

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malfeanatwork t1_jb5botc wrote

>Question: What happened to the $1.4 million that he won but did not take home?
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>Answer: The $1.4 million he did not take home is the amount that was withheld for taxes.

This is not true. The prize payout is structured as 4 million by way of 200K per year for 20 years. By choosing a one time payout, you lose a lot of that money but get it immediately. That is where the 1.4 million went. He still has to pay taxes on 2.6 million.

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hike_me t1_jb5ddn6 wrote

Dude, you’re wrong. $4 million is the jackpot if you take the annuity. It’s 2.6 million if you take the lump sum, which you still need to pay taxes on.

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HeadyBeersBrah t1_jb5hmtb wrote

Ha, he went with option 4 -- Abusing the suicide prevention report feature. Trying to report them, but it's not going through. If anyone else can report them that'd be grand.

Loser.

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hike_me t1_jb5pfgq wrote

Lol. They just can’t admit they’re wrong!

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HeadyBeersBrah t1_jb5s9st wrote

It's a symptom of the internet, we don't talk to each other like people and when confronted even in the gentlest of ways with an opposing viewpoint or correction to a false claim it goes directly to insults and doubling down on the original claim almost 100% of the time. Where is the shame in saying"okay, I didn't know that, my bad"?

I bet he deletes the comments eventually, seems like they at least realize they are wrong now.

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HeadyBeersBrah t1_jb5e432 wrote

It's always fun to see how people will respond when told they are wrong about something.

Will they double and triple down and continue to be a jerk? Will they register what they've been told as new information and verify for themselves, then say oh my bad? Delete the comment? It's almost always the first option.

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