[RhysU]

> If I won the lottery, and I just sent, say, a $500M check to a regular discount broker and bought an index fund, is someone going to take it away from me?

Not from you, but the IRS will take 40% of everything when you die.* Only 60%, at best, goes to your heirs depending on state law. Unless you proactively plan.

* Yes, yes the $13M federal exemption but that's a rounding error at the $500M+returns scale.

[olddustytrail]

Aw, the poor little workshy brats. If there's three of them they'll have to struggle by on $100 million each. By the safe withdrawal rule, that's just $4 million a year each indefinitely.

Cry me a river.

[red-iron-pine]

Good. Should be more like 80%.

No more aristocracies.