UK folks 85 million pounds up for grabs tonight!

[candidrachel]

Euromillions! Get your ticket! I got £10 worth. Got to be worth it. Tonight is the new Tuesday lottery any "no winner" gets rolled over to Friday. Boy what I would do with the jackpot!! I'd probably give some away to charity and give something back iykwim.

[graciousness]

Good god, imagine winning that - and someone will win that!

If you win Rachel, can you throw a big DPS party and invite us? With free flights? Please?

[UlpilotSC]

Originally Posted by candidrachel

Euromillions! Get your ticket! I got £10 worth. Got to be worth it. Tonight is the new Tuesday lottery any "no winner" gets rolled over to Friday. Boy what I would do with the jackpot!! I'd probably give some away to charity and give something back iykwim.

The lottery is a tax on people bad at math. That being said I would buy a ticket. After the government took half I would put a lot in the bank, and some of it I would probably cash out and just burn.
I've been giving 30% of my paycheck to "charity" all my working life, and haven't seen anything special come of it. People on welfare still are. People in public housing still are, cancer, aids, and the common cold haven't been cured, etc. Etc.
So screw charity. If charity wants some money, let them buy a ticket.

[candidrachel]

Is it the norm for money to go out of your paycheck? I know some countries do it. Sweden does it. I like to be in control of who gets what to charity. I pay £5 a month by direct debit to the RSPCA (the Royal Society for the Prevention to Cruelty to Animals) only. I know it's not much but if I had to donate to every Tom, Dick and Harry, I'd have nothing left! Other than that I just donate willy nilly to those people standing outside shopping centres to charities like Help for Heroes, the Red Cross, Help the Aged etc but if I won a big win I'd like to donate a big chunk.

[UlpilotSC]

Originally Posted by candidrachel

Is it the norm for money to go out of your paycheck? I know some countries do it. Sweden does it. I like to be in control of who gets what to charity. I pay £5 a month by direct debit to the RSPCA (the Royal Society for the Prevention to Cruelty to Animals) only. I know it's not much but if I had to donate to every Tom, Dick and Harry, I'd have nothing left! Other than that I just donate willy nilly to those people standing outside shopping centres to charities like Help for Heroes, the Red Cross, Help the Aged etc but if I won a big win I'd like to donate a big chunk.

In America they take income taxes, Medicare and social security out of your paycheck. It's about 30% right off the top. The thing is - social security is paying for old people, but the expectation is someone else will pay into your social security when you are old. The system will run out of money before I'm old enough to get it, so the money I'm paying in, I will never see. The funny thing is, they are always talking about having to cut social security this, and social security is going broke that... But no one ever says "oh no welfare might go broke". I say cut welfare, and put that money into social security. The people who worked hard all their lives deserve it. The couch potatoes we supported so they could breed another generation of couch potatoes, do not.

But, if I won the lottery, it might be worth the tax credit to give some to charity, so I would probably end up donating some to something. Maybe have my mother form a new charity, and then donate it to her.