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[-] foggy@lemmy.world 241 points 1 year ago

Kinda has a stench of "the wealthy get taxed too much 😢"

The IRS doesn't get that money. The IRS processes that money and prevents your lottery-ticket-buying-ass from hoarding it all, and redistributes some of that unnecessary wealth to the utilities and services were all invested in together as a society.

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 210 points 1 year ago

If only actual billionaires got taxed that much...

[-] scifu@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

The poor smuck probably claimed the lottery as an individual. He should have opened a company and claimed the ticket so that he can expense out a lot of his taxable income

/s

I am 99% sure this is not how it will work in this specific scenario but does otherwise when it’s business as usual.

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