1. Only a fraction of the money that individuals put into the lottery is ever used to pay winnings. A large portion of it goes back to the government to spend however they please.
2. You are
actually 16 times more likely to get killed in a car accident on the way to
purchase your lottery ticket than you are to actually win with the lottery
ticket you buy there!
3.
Statistically, you will be struck by lightning 5,000 times before you ever win
the lottery during your life.
4. If you
buy more lottery tickets, you're not that much more likely to win. Until you
start purchasing thousands of tickets, your odds don't go up that much at all.
5. If you
put $20 a month into buying lottery tickets from age 25 to 65, you'll likely
come out with next to nothing. If you instead put that into a mutual fund, you
would have $93,626.41, after taxes!
6. If every
single person on the planet had purchase a power ball ticket during any one
week, only 44 of them would win the lottery. At least it'd make some small
child in a third world country happy for a while!
7. If you
put $10,000 a week into playing the lottery, it would take you on average 2,809
years to win.
8. You are
over 8000 times more likely to be murdered than playing the lottery. You're
probably more likely to be murdered on the way to purchase you're lottery
ticket than you are to actually win it!
9. You are
213 times more likely to die in your bathtub than you are to win the lottery
and 146 times more likely to die of a fireworks accident than you are to win
the lottery.
G.K. Elio
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