Powerball’s massive jackpot will rollover and increase after Saturday’s drawing produced no winning tickets, according to the game’s website.

The $1.4-billion jackpot now grows to $1.55 billion but remains the third-largest in Powerball’s history (the second largest was $1.586 billion in 2016).

The last time someone won the Powerball jackpot after the July 19 drawing for the $1.08 billion pot. The winning ticket then was sold in California.

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    1 year ago

    After taxes you’d still come out less than a billionaire. But if a measley rich as fuck is good enough… He’ll I’ll probably kick a couple of bucks into the pot for the next drawing.

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      They’re referring to how the lottery is a tax on poor people. The states/etc use large portions of funding from it to do good things, but it shouldn’t be a revenue stream for states because a majority of participants live at or below the US poverty line.

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        1 year ago

        It is not a tax. Taxes are not voluntary.If you are old enough to buy a ticket you are old enough to judge the risk of buying in. That responsibility lies solely on the participant. And right or wrong it’s the biggest blessing schools in the South have ever seen. You can be mad, but don’t buy a ticket if you are.

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          I’m not mad, but you’re judging something that factually has potential to be addictive depending on the person, and that has been shown to be abusive to those in poverty (because again, that’s the main participants, people underprivileged day dreaming for a way out) as good just because it funds education and some otherwise very good things. We can run a lottery without incentivizing the funding to come from the underprivileged, and fund education, and should expect our government to do both.