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Originally Posted by mattz
$40 mil for the jackpot? That's not too much, around here it's always usually 80+ and above 100-150 isn't rare, last october it was like 218
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Your thinking on this is flawed in one important way. First off, $40 mill is not "nothing" no matter how cool you want to act. Second, there are only 33 million people in Canada, so a jackpot this size is HUGE for us. That's about $1.20 for every citizen in the country. In order for any of your US lottos to be comparable it would have to be up over $350 million. That's how huge this is by comparisson.
And ours is tax free. I'll say it again, ours is TAX FREE. Our Revenue Canada (Canadian IRS) doesn't stick their nose into our winnings and steal 40+ % right off the top like yours does. A $40 mill win here IS like a 70-80 mill win in the US... especially when our dollars are nearly at par right now.