No taxes on lottery winnings

Think how evil it is. I completely quit playing the lottery. It's always nice to buy a lottery ticket or two when the finances are looking particularly Grimm. And it might happen again. You just never know what fate is going to bring to your door. Still the government set up these lotteries. They sell the tickets and they make a huge profit. Then if you want the lump sum amount of your winnings they cut it roughly in half. And then they take half of that in taxes. So if you win a billion dollars you're only going to actually take 250 million dollars home. G let's see that's 750 million for them and 250 million for you. That sounds like the government.