As noted elsewhere, in Virginia that take-home amount is 0.5725 times whatever the large lump sum cash is (accurate to some noise level when discussing huge payouts).

Actually, the lottery does NOT pay you more each year (like, say, cost of living increase). Instead they give you LESS up front, then increase that amount annually so, by the end of the annuity period, you have received the entire lottery prize (not the lottery prize increased by cost-of-living).

AT&T and Blackstone (T and BX respectively as stock symbols) are two fairly large firms that have consistently paid excellent dividend for decades (I believe AT&T has monotonically increased their dividends as well).; they both pay more than 6%. $300+ megabucks at 6% per annum, even after taxes, is a nice chunk of…

If I won the current megamillions (in Virginia - about $313 megabucks AFTER all taxes) and was the sole winner I would not be concerned about maximizing my investment returns.

I believe all states have agreements to tax per residency so the winnings maybe would get taxed up front by New York but the winner would get it back and get taxed by their own state later.

In Virginia for an amount that large you just multiply the lump sum cash amount by 0.5725 for a very-close-to-actual estimate of your post tax winnings. Note that Virginia automatically keeps a portion of your Federal and State tax hit but you still owe quite a bit more than that at tax time; that 0.5725 figure takes…

The animators were all conrtact-shop workers from India and they thought the intersecting road had a railway line:

LibreOffice.

“...Americans are obsessed with claiming inordinate amounts of private space that they don’t need...”

Same with jeans - taken to the limit now by retailers selling torn/worn jeans as “new”.

Same with jeans - taken to the limit now by retailers selling torn/worn jeans as “new”.

There wasn’t another car involved. A merging car failed to yield to highway traffic that included - but was not limited to - a Google self-driving car. That single merging car then went out of control when the driver continued to fail to yield right-of-way and had to violently maneuver.

Or, perhaps more correctly, it is so far over to the side of the curve from normality that it is almost BS.

Lol!

That didn’t help. Still get a grayed screen when clicking that pic-etc link. Also happened this AM with an MMA “6 second knockout” twitter link.

One of my fave flight sims was Red Baron - fly WWI planes against each other and the ground - way cool (and crazy if you turned on the “accuracy” of the throttles, for example (on or off, nothing in between, take a pick!)).

Fave food in Taiwan from a street vendor - “Gee Peecoo, Lada” - very poorly transcribed to English characters, huh?

Yup.

“...This is the same reason fish eyes do not appear on the map.”

I’m from Virginny but...

“...the racial connotation likely never crossed their minds.”