One Billion Dollars
One Billion Dollars
Author: Mark V. Markov
If one hundred million people
Of legal age
Bought four
Five dollar tickets
Once a week
That is twenty dollars a week
To spend on the pick five number lotto
For the drawing
That is drawn once a week
Five times one hundred million
Is five hundred million
Multiply five hundred million by two
And you get a thousand million,
A thousand million is a billion.
So if one hundred million people
Bought only two five dollar tickets
The amount would be one thousand million,
And one thousand million is a billion.
Of course
Multiply that by two
And you get two billion
The accumulated money
The jackpot money
Would be
Two billion dollars
And after the fifty percent tax
The take away money
For the winner
Would be
One billion dollars
The winnings payout
Will always be in the whole sum
And not in installments
The fifty percent winnings tax
Or it can be called the winnings fee
Is justified
Since the money goes into the fund
That helps everyone
With the basic necessities
And is paid out in the whole sum, right away.
This can be done
Every week
So every week
One billion dollars tax money
Will be contributed
To the lottery payout fund
For everyone in need
With basic necessities
This way
Four billion dollars
Every month
Will be going into the fund
That helps everyone
With basic necessities
If there is a winner
In the first drawing
On the first try
Yet if there is no winner
In the first drawing
On the first try
Then the whole two billion Jackpot
From every week
That is eight billion a month
The eight billion will go into the fund
That helps everyone
With the basic necessities
The fund that sends
The monthly payment to everyone
So the whole eight billion
Will go into that fund
Every month
Unless won by the winner
Every week it is played
Every week it is restarted
Either way
Either the tax money
Or the whole jackpot
Will go into the fund
That helps everyone
With the basic necessities
As the five number pick lotto
Will be restarted
Every week
For the people to pick
The new five numbers
As the five number pick lotto
Will be played
Every week,
On and on...
https://lottery.com/
LOTTERY
US Population 331 Million from year 2021.
The United States had an official resident population of 331,893,745 on July 1, 2021,
according to the U.S. Census Bureau.[1]
Population info taken from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States
US Population
Population of China 1 billion 413 million since 2021
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China
Population of China
Population of India 1 billion 407 million since 2022
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_India
Population of India
Population of Brazil 217 million since 2020
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Brazil
Population Of Brazil
Population of Russia 145 million since January 2022
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Russia
Population of Russia
Population of Japan is 124 Million since 2021
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Japan
Population of Japan
Luke 19:8-10 (ESV)
8 And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor.
And if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it fourfold.”
9 And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, since he also is a son of Abraham.
10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
Luke 19:1-10 (ESV)
1 He entered Jericho and was passing through.
2 And behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector and was rich.
3 And he was seeking to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not,
because he was small in stature.
4 So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was about to pass that way.
5 And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him,
“Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for I must stay at your house today.”
6 So he hurried and came down and received him joyfully.
7 And when they saw it, they all grumbled, “He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.”
8 And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor.
And if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it fourfold.”
9 And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, since he also is a son of Abraham.
10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
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