# Tax question: winning the lottery

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tax-question-winning-the-lottery/630999>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 9, 2012, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tax-question-winning-the-lottery/630999 "2012-08-09T20:30:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tax-question-winning-the-lottery/630999/41 "2012-08-19T14:14:42Z")

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> [@Rand\_Rover](#):
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> You are wrong. A limited partner and a member of an LLC also risk none of their own money. And it’s not the case that “almost everything is incorporated today.”

“None of their own money”…except for the actual money that they invested in the business.

I think your point is that one’s personal wealth is not at risk from lawsuits and the like.

We don’t want anyone thinking that those big-shot 1% LLC investors are out there sucking other’s dry without taking any risk now do we !!

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