Thursday, February 16, 2006

Why the lottery is a Stupid Bet

Last night the multi-state Powerball Lottery had a grand prize of $300 million dollars.

If you lived in Missouri the chances of you winning ANYTHING was 2.5%

Bets placed: 125,627
Bets that won anything: 3,172

Welcome to the new tax system, sucker.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Someone once described the lottery as a tax on people who are bad at math....

12:46 PM, February 16, 2006  

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