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  US WITHOLDING TAX PROCEDURS CHANGE NEXT YEAR

  by blondie in

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  https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/another-tax-headache-ahead-irs-100101435.html.

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  JeffT

  The first thing you need to do is decide if you want a big refund of your own money back, or do you want to take it home and spend it now. Which is more useful to you? With a modicum of planning and restraint you can put the money in the bank and collect interest on it. This will give you more money next year if you just hang on to it. Remember, the government is happy to take your money now and give it back to you later with no interest.

  We need to make basic financial management a required course for high school graduation. Also a simpler tax code.
  
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  Just noticed something about my membership here

  by JeffT in

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  i've been a member of this board three years longer than i was a jehovah's witness (eighteen vs fifteen).

  i'm sure i've put in more hours here than i did in field service, it was more fun as well.

  anybody else with similar numbers?.

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  JeffT

  I've been a member of this board three years longer than I was a Jehovah's Witness (eighteen vs fifteen). I'm sure I've put in more hours here than I did in field service, it was more fun as well. Anybody else with similar numbers?.
  
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  Any ex jws Seattle

  by Wagurl in

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  anyone that is near that area in general?

  just curious on that?

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  JeffT

  I currently live just outside Woodinville. I've been out since 1988, but when I was a JW I was in the Pullman, Spokane Valley and Bellevue congregations.
  
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  If you were a fly on the wall at HQ right now...

  by burnedout in

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  what would you be hearing about topshelf tony's liquor run?.

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  JeffT

  I work in a 28-day in-patient recovery program. Maybe I should send him a brochure.
  
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  Do You Think The Obama Administration Should Be Investigated For How They Treated The Trump Accusations?

  by minimus in

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  i hope that the trump administration looks into obama , clinton and all the other players for trying to usurp the legitimacy of the trump presidency..

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  JeffT

  Finklestein, are you saying we're in a time of overlapping investigations?

  /runs for cover/
  
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  Do You Think The Obama Administration Should Be Investigated For How They Treated The Trump Accusations?

  by minimus in

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  i hope that the trump administration looks into obama , clinton and all the other players for trying to usurp the legitimacy of the trump presidency..

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  JeffT

  Athanasius: I was a convert that was politically very active before I joined the cult. I've been out quite a while now. I've observed that understanding politics and government is a major challange for many xjw's. Therefore reasonable political discussion is appropriate here. But we all need to be careful about how we talk to those that disagree with us.
  
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  Not JW related, but should the electoral college be abolished?

  by Billzfan23 in

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  elizabeth warren, alexandria ocasio cortez, and other democrats are openly expressing interest (and in come cases, campaign promises) that the electoral college has to go.

  i disagree for a few reasons.

  first, the 25 states (out of 50, so 50%) with the smallest populations only get 21% of the electoral college votes (in our current system, today).

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  Just out of curiosity, how many on this thread have read the US Constitution and The Federalist Papers?
  
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  Not JW related, but should the electoral college be abolished?

  by Billzfan23 in

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  elizabeth warren, alexandria ocasio cortez, and other democrats are openly expressing interest (and in come cases, campaign promises) that the electoral college has to go.

  i disagree for a few reasons.

  first, the 25 states (out of 50, so 50%) with the smallest populations only get 21% of the electoral college votes (in our current system, today).

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  JeffT

  I hope Trump wins the popular vote and loses the electoral college. It will be a generation before we have to engage in this stupid argument again.

  PS, Senators weren't meant to represent people. They represent the interests of the state, or they're supposes to.
  
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  The Mueller Report....will it affect Trump negatively?

  by minimus in

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  they say it will be out any day soon.

  do you think the report will do major damage to trump?.

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  Depends on what it says. If there is clear evidence of criminal acitivity, yes. By this I mean so obvious even the Republicans will have to acknowledge it. That is what brought Richard Nixon down, and gave Bill Clinton a pass. Nixon's problems became so big even his own party had to repudiate him. Clinton was able to make the charges look fuzzy enough to give Democrats supporting him cover to let him stay in office. (Side note, the Clinton affair can be taken as proof that lying under oath is not an impeachable offense, neither is hitting on an intern in the oval office,)

  If Mueller can't find anything really big, it won't matter because the Democrats will just go look for something else to charge him with.
  
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  Climate Change - True Believer or Skeptic?

  by Simon in

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  climate change ... who doesn't believe it?

  crazy fools and science deniers ... right?.

  it seems like it's become the new religion, the new orthodoxy, that must be accepted and believed as gospel and preached to all.. is it ok to be skeptical?.

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  JeffT

  What did you do with the real Simon?

  Seriously, I've been skeptical all along because there has been evidence that numbers are being fudged to make the results come out to the "correct" solution. I'm on my way to work, I'll have to look later but I just read about a weather service in Australia that is revising historical numbers to make it look like there has been warming. That may be reasonable, but they need to explain there numbers. That's how science works.