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submitted 2 years ago by sizeoftheuniverse to c/[email protected]

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[–] Noughmad 120 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Congratulations to the lottery company who was allowed to advertise a $400m prize as $1.28b.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yep, that's the real issue!

Over here it's not taxed so prizes are smaller but they represent reality!

[–] pythonoob 1 points 2 years ago

So tax the tickets and not the prizes? I could get behind that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

You'd get significantly more if you didn't take it in a lump sum