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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

If I win megamillions I'll happily pay whatever taxes I'm obligated to pay. I have nothing I can deduct to reduce my obligation, I have no investments or tax shelters, and my Intel stock has been tanking this year.

I'll give my sister a million, maybe a hundred thousand to each of his aids, and then set dad up in the swankiest full-service nursing/memory/palliative care place I can find. I'll probably donate a million to the battered women's shelter down in Leesburg, and maybe I'll pick up a bunch of Sonic gift cards and give them to those sign-waver folks who hang out begging in front of Walmart.

And then, I'm going back up to New England from late May til late September. Enjoy the fall foliage, the lilac trees in the spring, mountains and roadside farmstands and hot lobster rolls and buskers playing in Harvard Square and the subway and shopping and taking the T everywhere! I'll buy a new car down here, and a spankin tricked-out golf cart. Hubby will just have to miss me a couple months every year, he hates travel and I miss home too much to not go.

I'll stop worrying about being able to afford health insurance premiums. I'll get the best I can find, and get this damned hip replacement I've been needing for the past few years.

I'll still have enough left over that maybe I'll buy a ghost-town in the midwest somewhere, just for fun.

So says the hundreds that lost it all. You have no choice to try find honest tax advisor and hope he/she don’t steer you wrong or have sticky fingers. Think you have headaches now? The headaches over money will be ten fold.