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Old 01-12-2007, 01:47 PM
MasterLJ MasterLJ is offline
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Default Re: beat: $315m powerball winner now broke

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Whittaker won a nearly $315 million on Christmas 2002 [...] He took his winnings in a lump sum of $113 million after taxes.

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Jee-sus, the IRS are definitely the biggest crooks in this country.

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That's actually not bad at all. Lump sum is generally about half of the total: Paying $44.5m on $157.5m really isn't that bad. I'd be happy to have that problem.
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