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  Watchtower disputes $200K tax bill from Newburgh

  by Rattigan350 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://www.recordonline.com/news/20180904/watchtower-disputes-200k-tax-bill-from-newburgh.

  town of newburgh — the watchtower bible and tract society of new york is challenging nearly $200,000 in fire and other special district taxes assessed for three town of newburgh properties, including two hotels the organization bought to house volunteers helping build its world headquarters in warwick.. in a petition filed in orange county court last month, the umbrella organization for jehovah’s witnesses claimed that the town “either unintentionally as a mistake or intentionally and without lawful authority” miscoded the former hilton on crossroads court and the former hampton inn on route 300 for 2016, 2017 and this year.. with a combined market value of nearly $23 million, the hotel properties were not assessed town, county and school taxes for those years.

  but the town assessed $196,000 charges for the orange lake fire district and lighting and water districts during those years.. newburgh also assessed $1,600 in special district taxes over three years for a vacant commercial property watchtower owns at route 17k and route 300.. “petitioner would not be required to pay the resulting unjust charges if its exemption from taxes had been justly, correctly, and lawfully granted and administered,” watchtower’s attorneys wrote in the organization’s petition in county court.. watchtower bought the two hotel properties in 2014 as it built its 1.6 million-square-foot headquarters on kings drive in warwick.

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  IMO -- EVERY governmental municipality, county, State, etc should start taxing ALL religious buildings/real estate holding.

  This /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ times 100 with ZERO tax breaks!
  

  Religion - leeching off the public for centuries!
  
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  Watchtower disputes $200K tax bill from Newburgh

  by Rattigan350 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://www.recordonline.com/news/20180904/watchtower-disputes-200k-tax-bill-from-newburgh.

  town of newburgh — the watchtower bible and tract society of new york is challenging nearly $200,000 in fire and other special district taxes assessed for three town of newburgh properties, including two hotels the organization bought to house volunteers helping build its world headquarters in warwick.. in a petition filed in orange county court last month, the umbrella organization for jehovah’s witnesses claimed that the town “either unintentionally as a mistake or intentionally and without lawful authority” miscoded the former hilton on crossroads court and the former hampton inn on route 300 for 2016, 2017 and this year.. with a combined market value of nearly $23 million, the hotel properties were not assessed town, county and school taxes for those years.

  but the town assessed $196,000 charges for the orange lake fire district and lighting and water districts during those years.. newburgh also assessed $1,600 in special district taxes over three years for a vacant commercial property watchtower owns at route 17k and route 300.. “petitioner would not be required to pay the resulting unjust charges if its exemption from taxes had been justly, correctly, and lawfully granted and administered,” watchtower’s attorneys wrote in the organization’s petition in county court.. watchtower bought the two hotel properties in 2014 as it built its 1.6 million-square-foot headquarters on kings drive in warwick.

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  The county might waive the taxes, then burn those buildings down and see how Watchtower would fare without fire dept.

  If only "prayers" worked.
  
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  2018 JWBroadcasting "Higher education is useless" video CLIP

  by Not_Culty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  sept 2018. https://vimeo.com/288327363.

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  And still WT uses physicians, attorneys, communication specialists, electricians, plumbers and the like to help them operate their corporation.

  And until they totally quit doing that I will believe they are willfully hypocritical.
  
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  2018 JWBroadcasting "Higher education is useless" video CLIP

  by Not_Culty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  sept 2018. https://vimeo.com/288327363.

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  Or constipation....

  Well they ARE mostly full of s--t y'know.
  
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  coughs colds and respitory ills

  by zeb in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  do stil in jw attend the kh when they have the above?.

  some years ago it was the norm-meetings are sooooo important.

  whats the position these days?

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  I remember some dumb circuit oversneer haughtily saying from the platform, "Unless one has broken bones, or are dead there is NO REASON to miss a meeting!"
  
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  2018 JWBroadcasting "Higher education is useless" video CLIP

  by Not_Culty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  sept 2018. https://vimeo.com/288327363.

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  And things like this video and the idiots that lap it up are the reason a flat out refuse to give one thin dime to anyone who whines about how they need some financial "assistance", especially when the waddle into the KH with their brand new shiny tablets. I remind them they cannot spell assistance with out ASS.
  
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  Joined a church, now im getting love bombed.

  by greenhornet in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  about a year ago i started going to a local christain church.

  they were good to me.

  i missed the the jw type of always find some one to hang around with.

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  What is GFZ?

  Gun Free Zone?
  
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  2018 JWBroadcasting "Higher education is useless" video CLIP

  by Not_Culty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  sept 2018. https://vimeo.com/288327363.

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  I would hope, although I know it will never happen, that every doctor-lawyer-engineer, anyone with an education above the minimum required by law whose skills are demanded free of charge by WT sees this and refuses to give their services or the money received from secular employment for those "useless" services to WT. An effective boycott of WT.
  
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  The Longest Goodbye Of John McCain

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  can you believe it?

  this funeral arrangement goes on and on and on.

  if the people loved him so much he would have been elected president.

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  Do KHs lock their doors when meeting starts now?

  by NikL in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my still in wife informed me this morning that she must be on time to the meeting as they are locking the door when it starts now.. i said that's crazy.

  she said it's because of the times we are living in.. we live in a rural area and crime isn't terrible though it's worse than it used to be.. i told her if that's the way it is then why bother leaving the house at all?.

  she said they are just trying to be safe.. is this a thing now?

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  I am not comfortable being locked in a building.

  As commented on in another thread about this subject...no one is locked IN, late-comers are locked OUT, unless they are "approved" by whomever is "guarding" the door. It makes some sense I guess in more urban areas, and maybe even in some rural areas. In a small rural town of only a few thousand close to my location a woman teacher went out for her normal Saturday morning jog and disappeared, only to have her body found in a shallow grave nearly two hundred miles (U.S.) away with forensic evidence of gang rape, and death by multiple stab wounds. The increasing criminal element coupled with the increasing laziness of law-"enforcement" is one reason I legally carry concealed now. FedUp ain't going down without a fight!