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In case you haven't checked yet, there was one winner one yesterday's Euromillions Lottery, and the ticket was bought in the UK!!!

For those of you in the US, £113m equals approx $170m, and the prize is paid as a TAX FREE lump sum.

Unfortunately it wasn't me, but if it was you, ENJOY ( how could you not?) and watch out for new "friends"!!

Wow with that you should be able to upgrade, trade up Still would'nt tho atb geoff

wasn't me

Here in the U.S., the various lotteries are complicated and slightly less than honest.(As lotteries have always been) At a lottery's inception, the anti-gambling folks are pacified by the promise that the lottery revenue will be put into the state's education system. And it is. The politicians take out the regular education funds that taxes pay for and reinsert the lottery revenue. Viola! Promise kept! (The tax revenue previously spent on education then dissapears into the maw of "general funds".)Only one half of the lottery money taken in, is ever "given" away, the other half is kept. Of the one half that is won, taxes are paid on, usually to the tune of roughly 30% or so, if you take the lump sum payment. If you take the optional "20 year payout", the winner gets more, but of course, the lottery can then use "your" money to collect interest, and will actully pay out less than half of the amount considering interest made on "your" money. All said and done, I am not anti-lottery, per se. I buy a dollar ticket about six times a year, and it is worth that just for the "dreaming entertainment" value. The instant scratch off tickets are for gamblers, and are totally un-worth it. Plus, every gas station around here has the scratch off tickets, and you often have to wait behind some golem-eyed fool to turn in his "winners", and buy some more tickets, while you just want to pay for you fuel. And WHEN I do win the lottery, (I come close, six times a year!), I'm gonna supersize to a rocket, and cross size to a bird. Heck, I may even get a couple of hardleys for all my new friends to ride!

I'll buy a couple every now and then for fun, but doubt if I spend $20 in a year.

Several years ago, I was standing in line at the gas/convenience store and an elderly woman was in front of me buying $300 in lottery tickets. She said to the clerk; "I need to win tonight, this is my rent money." Judging by her appearance, I believed her. I've never forgotten that moment. Face it, most lottery's are a stupid tax on the poor.