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Would You Pay Someone's Bill?

humbolt said:
I have no use for $350 million. The advice in post #15 is sound. If you have no experience with such amounts of money, it's best to let professionals handle it in a manner designed to achieve the most good for the most people for the longest time. Anonymously. Otherwise, I have no doubt you'll discover your extended family is far more extended than you ever realized.
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If you ever do fall into $350 mill and you find you really have no use for it...give me a call. I'll take that burden off your shoulders. ;)
 
VanceMack said:
If you ever do fall into $350 mill and you find you really have no use for it...give me a call. I'll take that burden off your shoulders. ;)
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Heh. I know what you mean, but truly I have no use for such money personally. I'm retired, and my wants and needs are not so large that I can imagine any use for that kind of money. Sure, I'd spend a little, but what would I do with the other $349,000,000?
 
humbolt said:
Heh. I know what you mean, but truly I have no use for such money personally. I'm retired, and my wants and needs are not so large that I can imagine any use for that kind of money. Sure, I'd spend a little, but what would I do with the other $349,000,000?
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Methinks you would figger something out.
 
humbolt said:
No doubt. I'd follow the advice in post #15. I'm old enough now that a simple life is most appealing.
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So is a young gal with great big hooties. ;)
 
I would give a significant portion to charity, I don't know that I'd go around paying the bills of random people though.
 
akyron said:
I have no problem with charity. I contribute every year to good will and a children's center.

What I have a problem with is corrupt officials reaching into the pockets of one group of people and moving resources to another.

Straight up government overreach and unconstitutional.

https://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig4/ellis1.html

"Well, Colonel, it is hardly worthwhile to waste time or words upon it. I do not see how it can be mended, but you gave a vote last winter which shows that either you have not capacity to understand the Constitution, or that you are wanting in honesty and firmness to be guided by it. In either case you are not the man to represent me. But I beg your pardon for expressing it in that way. I did not intend to avail myself of the privilege of the Constitution to speak plainly to a candidate for the purpose of insulting or wounding you. I intend by it only to say that your understanding of the Constitution is very different from mine; and I will say to you what, but for my rudeness, I should not have said, that I believe you to be honest. But an understanding of the Constitution different from mine I cannot overlook, because the Constitution, to be worth anything, must be held sacred, and rigidly observed in all its provisions. The man who wields power and misinterprets it is the more dangerous the more honest he is."

"I admit the truth of all you say, but there must be some mistake about it, for I do not remember that I gave any vote last winter upon any constitutional question."

"No, Colonel, there's no mistake. Though I live here in the backwoods and seldom go from home, I take the papers from Washington and read very carefully all the proceedings of Congress. My papers say that last winter you voted for a bill to appropriate $20,000 to some sufferers by a fire in Georgetown. Is that true?"

"Certainly it is, and I thought that was the last vote which anybody in the world would have found fault with."

"Well, Colonel, where do you find in the Constitution any authority to give away the public money in charity?"


True or not it's a good story.

I'm always amazed at how little we know of history as a people.
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Even charities can be corrupt. The real problem is the concentration of wealth in hands of those who don't distribute it to the needy.

https://www.charitywatch.org/charitywatch-articles/charitywatch-hall-of-shame/63
 
blackjack50 said:
If you won $350 million dollars in a lottery...would you help others pay their bills? Discreetly of course? I think I would. Maybe give $10,000 (or $9999) towards the bill of their choice. I would do it once a year for different people. What about you? I"
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Sure. Even after the tax hit, I'd have way more than I'd need to take care of my family and friends. After that, I would donate much of the remainder to those in need, but I'd need to decide the most effective way to do that.
 
blackjack50 said:
If you won $350 million dollars in a lottery...would you help others pay their bills? Discreetly of course? I think I would. Maybe give $10,000 (or $9999) towards the bill of their choice. I would do it once a year for different people. What about you? I"
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We have contributed--anonymously whenever possible--to help people out who needed some help. And we have received help from others when we were hit with expenses we could not reasonably cover. I think that's what normal people do for people unless you're of the snowflake generation that expects government to take care of all your needs cradle to grave.

If we won millions of dollars, I don't know how we would handle that but I would like to set up a foundation or charity that would put most of that money to work for generations to come.

And I would use some to take another cruise to Alaska but this time invite a lot of folks to join us.
 
blackjack50 said:
If you won $350 million dollars in a lottery...would you help others pay their bills? Discreetly of course? I think I would. Maybe give $10,000 (or $9999) towards the bill of their choice. I would do it once a year for different people. What about you? I"
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Hmm good question.
Lets do an experiment. Give me 350 million and lets see what I do with it ;)
 
blackjack50 said:
If you won $350 million dollars in a lottery...would you help others pay their bills? Discreetly of course? I think I would. Maybe give $10,000 (or $9999) towards the bill of their choice. I would do it once a year for different people. What about you? I"
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The interest on $350 million is taxable, therefore it makes sense to give some away to both registered and non-registered charity.
 
blackjack50 said:
If you won $350 million dollars in a lottery...would you help others pay their bills? Discreetly of course? I think I would. Maybe give $10,000 (or $9999) towards the bill of their choice. I would do it once a year for different people. What about you? I"
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Easy to answer. Yes. I've already done so before.
 
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