And here are your winning numbers...
Are you like me? Do you pay the "stupidity tax" now and then -- that is, play the state lottery?
I get into Oregon Megabucks when the jackpot gets big enough. And it's now the largest in state history -- nominally, more than $23 million. After taxes, it's probably something like $6 million plus in immediate cash.
The odds of winning the jackpot are roughly 6.136 million to 1, and you get two entries for a buck, and so I think the winner gets pretty fair odds when the jackpot's this big.
The next drawing is Monday night; if nobody wins there, we'll have another chance to be stupid on Wednesday and again on Saturday. Somebody's got to win it, and this could be the week.
If I win, I'll be sure to blog about it.
Not.
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Comments (4)
I've succumbed to Powerball, but never to Megabucks.
Thanks for introducing me to yet another vice...
Posted by Betsy | October 24, 2004 9:46 AM
"If I win, I'll be sure to blog about it."
You're one of those industrious ultra-Americans who won't quit their day job when they win the lottery, eh? :) Thank heavens!
Posted by Sally | October 24, 2004 12:09 PM
I guess the stupidity tax is the one tax politicians are not interested in lowering. The more revenue collected from the mathematically-challenged, the more they can cut taxes for the wealthy.
Posted by Dave | October 25, 2004 10:15 AM
And it's not just the politicians, Dave. The people. "Don't tax thee; don't tax me; tax the guy behind the tree."
Almost (not quite) the only taxes Oregonians have been willing to increase in recent years are taxes on the relatively poorer & stupider. The lottery and cigarette taxes.
It's a piss-poor and spectacularly dishonest and irresponsible way to fund public services for the public at large.
In my (not humble about this at all) opinion.
Posted by Sally | October 25, 2004 1:09 PM