Billion dollar lottery winner in Illinois

[tower912]

 A billion?  Take the lump, pay all of the taxes I can find.  Set up my two kids at around $10 mil each.   Keep $10 mil for my wife and I.  A couple mil for my two siblings.  Give the rest away.  Fund some eco start ups.  Food banks. Pay for a season of MU hoops.   Give an equal amount to the university.   Make the local Catholic schools very happy.

[Uncle Rico]

A billion?  Take the lump, pay all of the taxes I can find.  Set up my two kids at around $10 mil each.   Keep $10 mil for my wife and I.  A couple mil for my two siblings.  Give the rest away.  Fund some eco start ups.  Food banks. Pay for a season of MU hoops.   Give an equal amount to the university.   Make the local Catholic schools very happy.

I think it's clear based on evangelicalism, Jesus would want you to keep your money

[tower912]

I will keep some.  Greed is still one of the seven deadlies.   Greed and narcissism are the two biggest problems in modern society.

[rocky_warrior]

I'd give it all to @Pakuni to buy Scoop.

[Uncle Rico]

I will keep some.  Greed is still one of the seven deadlies.   Greed and narcissism are the two biggest problems in modern society.

We get it.  You want the Khmer Rouge of America to take over

[MU82]

Lotteries crack me up. They get to a billion and everyone buys tickets. But when they're only at, say $350 million ... who needs chicken scratch like that?

[romey]

Lotteries crack me up. They get to a billion and everyone buys tickets. But when they're only at, say $350 million ... who needs chicken scratch like that?

cuz you have to win a billion to take home 350k 

[cheebs09]

I'd give it to the Bears and require they build their stadium in Gary.

[muwarrior69]

Someone is bad at math

How so? The lottery folks take 50% right off the top. The Feds take another 37% and in my state they take another 11% of the half that reamains.

[Shaka Shart]

I'd buy a predator drone and finish off the manatees once and for all

[TSmith34, Inc.]

How so? The lottery folks take 50% right off the top. The Feds take another 37% and in my state they take another 11% of the half that reamains.

No, they don't. The present value of the lump sum and the annuity payments are the same.

[Jockey]

If I won a billion dollars, I'd buy Scoop.

You'd need at least 2 more investors.

[pbiflyer]

First of all, I want to say to all my Illinois based Marquette friends you have always been like family to me. A treasure every moment with you. Especially the upcoming ones on the yacht in the Mediterranean.
I would absolutely give each and every one of you here.......a postcard from every place that I travel to.

Oh, and to the person that said they would get thrown out for yelling at Driscoll, I was fortunate enough to have really good seats one game and I did not get thrown out even though I said lots of bad things to him.

[NCMUFan]

I was only one digit of one number off. Story of my life.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

I have 4 Marquette friends from Quincy.  Unfortunately none of them were the winner.