This is why I am a huge proponent of abolishing the U.S. Tax Code and the IRS in exchange for a flat tax. Everyone and every corporation pays a flat percentage in income tax to the U.S. government. The only deductions should be for donations to charities.
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If you prepaid $2100.00 in taxes, Uncle Sam could refund you $9987.00
by Hecce inthere was a little bit of discussion on another thread about the results of the recent tax changes in usa.
i decided to compare whether or not the changes were favoring the lower-income class versus the middle class.
the family that i inputted into the system was a married couple with four minor dependents, their income was $44000.00 annually and they paid $2100.00 in taxes during the year.. after completing the calculations, this family is getting a refund of $9981.00; the bulk of it are earned income credit $2191.00 and additional child credit $5600.00.
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Babies Who Are Not Dead From An Abortion
by minimus ina woman gets an abortion.
the baby is supposed to die because of the abortion but doesn’t.
should that living baby be put to death or should the baby be given medical help to survive?.
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Conversely, I don't think people she be allowed to eat their cake and have it too.
If it is solely up to the woman to decide whether or not to keep the child, the mother should solely be responsible for the child. Men having to pay child support for a child the mother decided to keep should be abolished.
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OK, We Need To Talk About The Crazy New Great Tribulation Video...
by pale.emperor inif you haven't seen it already, skip to 1:14:30 in lloyds video and watch the craziness unfold.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2y7f7-k5wo.
i'd love to hear everyone's thoughts on this.. they're digging themselves a great hole here, in about 30 years time they'll be claiming this video was a mere "speculation" and that "some people" got the wrong ideas..
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A couple of things I noted:
1) Official statement that "True worship" was restored in 1919. This de-legitimizes Charles Taze Russell and all his work.
2) Morriss stays the phrase "After prayerful consideration" no less than 3 times before revealing that the Governing Body identifies Russia as the King of the North. So, 8 guys pray and then considered. Whatever they come up with after that is to be accepted as true.
3) I have been out for over a decade, but I believe this is the first time the Watchtower stated if any of the 144,000 would be on Earth at Armageddon which is a "no". That creates a real dilemma for them with increased partakers.
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New Upcoming Changes - No More Publisher Record Cards & Reporting Hours
by thedepressedsoul inpublisher record cards and reporting hours will be going away.
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coming soon.. made this post 4 years ago, it happened - https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/24020002/kingdom-consolidation-sales-coming-reliable-source.
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Jehovah's Witnesses is a religion based on the business of selling books. That is why the term "Publisher" is used when they refer to a fellow member. Businesses collect data on sales to help make decisions. Jehovah's Witnesses literally were door-to-door salesmen for the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. That was until the 1990s.
Fears over losing their religious tax exempt status in the U.S. caused the Watchtower to change its model. Instead of selling their printed products, publishers were to "place" them with interested ones and then make that person aware of the donation process supporting the "World Wide Work." This model failed as a business plan.
As a result we saw many changes come and come quickly. Hardbound books were replaced with paperbacks. Watchtower and Awake magazines were reduced in the number of issues published and the number of pages. A new digital format has been adopted requiring members to download publications on their own devices.
Why the change again? For legal reasons. I see the same being true with maintain records on members with the recent privacy laws being passed in Europe. I could see members having to log into an account and report their activities with the servers being based in Wallkill, New York.
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If you prepaid $2100.00 in taxes, Uncle Sam could refund you $9987.00
by Hecce inthere was a little bit of discussion on another thread about the results of the recent tax changes in usa.
i decided to compare whether or not the changes were favoring the lower-income class versus the middle class.
the family that i inputted into the system was a married couple with four minor dependents, their income was $44000.00 annually and they paid $2100.00 in taxes during the year.. after completing the calculations, this family is getting a refund of $9981.00; the bulk of it are earned income credit $2191.00 and additional child credit $5600.00.
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The perfect tax return is $0.00.
This is the same reason I know longer escrow property taxes and insurance through my mortgage company. Mortgage companies over estimate what you will be paying in property taxes. The money you pay into your escrow account goes into an interest bearing account. Come tax time, the mortgage company pays your property taxes and you end up getting a modest check for the amount you overpaid.
What about the money made in interested on your escrow account? Oh, the mortgage company keeps that. Literally, they make money off of your money.
The same is true of federal income tax. You pay in quarterly. That money goes into an interest bearing account. Come tax time you find out you over paid. You get a refund of money you could have kept and spent, but the government keeps the interest made off your over payment.
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If The Mueller Report Doesn’t Prove Trump Colluded With The Russians They Will Still Claim Trump Is Guilty!
by minimus init’s already happening.
they just can’t move on..
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Donald J. Trump is no angel. Trump probably has committed crimes. I just know the political elite class of Washington D.C. is throwing whatever they can against the wall to see what sticks to de-legitimize Trump's presidency. It's not just the political elite class, but it is also all their statist buddies - Hollywood, media advocates (formally known as big media news press), educrats, etc.
Donald J. Trump is a crude and arrogant man. I personally do not like him as a person. However, I will not argue with the fact that the U.S. has done better over the past two years of his term than the last eight under the last guy.
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If The Mueller Report Doesn’t Prove Trump Colluded With The Russians They Will Still Claim Trump Is Guilty!
by minimus init’s already happening.
they just can’t move on..
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What sealed the deal for me on this was the pointless indictments of Russian private citizens for attempting to sway the outcome of the Presidential election. The US has not extradition treaty with Russia. So DOJ knew it was all for stage theater. That was until one of the Russian troll farms retained legal counsel, showed up in court with a Defendant's Response, and demanded discovery.
The moment that happened the Defendant immediately had a right to discovery. What did DOJ turn over as discovery to the Defendant - nothing! DOJ told the court they believed they didn't have to turn over anything because the Defendant was never served a copy of the suit.
That's when I knew this whole this is as it appears - a witch hunt.
The Russians have been meddling in US elections since the end of World War II. The evidence shows that the Russians involved spread misinformation about both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The desired result was not one or the other winning the election, but rather dividing the American people. Mission accomplished.
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The Space Alien is...JESUS!
by TerryWalstrom insilly obsessionsome groups of people in the world believe flying saucers and space aliens are secretly visiting our planet intervening in man’s affairs.
jehovah’s witnesses believe something very similar!
except, the space alien is jesus!throughout the history of christianity there has never been any confusion about what the phrase"the return of christ" actually means.
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Terry:
I think it would be great to have your list of 18 items taught by the Watchtower with the citation next to each item. Bullet point item 11.
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The origin of the word Lullaby
by StarTrekAngel inreading around the subject of lillith, the alledged, rebel first wife of adam, i stumbled upon this link and many others that link the custom of singing babies to sleep as an ancient jewish superstition.. http://www.jeanniemusick.com/lilith-world/lilith-as-the-origin-of-the-lullaby/.
some of the research could probably be argued but looking at it from the wt perspective and mirroring their usual reasoning, i could imagine the following.... ... it appears that the word "lullaby" originates from the the hebrew "lilith-abi", which means "lilith be gone".
jewish mothers used to sing these songs to their babies in bed in hopes that they would be protected from this baby snatching demon called lilith.
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The topic of Lilith is a very interesting story.
According to Jewish legend, Lilith was the first woman created by God. This originated because of Genesis 1:27 -
"And God went on to create the man in his image, in God’s image he created him; male and female he created them." NWT
Eve doesn't show up into the picture until Genesis 2:22. To explain Genesis 1:27 "male and female he created them," indicating that God created both a man and a woman from the Earth, the Jews created Lilith - Adam's first wife.
As the story goes, the "marriage" between Adam and Lilith ended real quick over an argument of who was going to be "on top." Lilith leaves Adam and moves into a cave next to the Red Sea. She starts having children with an angel and these kiddos are demons.
Adam, being lonely, whines to God. God sends three angels to force Lilith back to Adam. These three angels threaten Lilith that if she doesn't go back to Adam they will drown 100 of her offspring everyday. Lilith responds by saying she is going to kill every male child 8 or younger and every female under 20.
Lilith and the angels make a compromise - Lilith doesn't have to go back to Adam in exchange that whenever the three angels' names are invoked by the parents of a child she will not kill that child. This in turn created the tradition of inscribing the three angels' names on amulets and hanging them over children's beds.
It is also interest to note that many renaissance artists depicted Lilith as the serpent in the Garden of Eden and that Lilith was the one who convinced Eve to partake of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge.
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Leah Remini: Scientology and Jehovah's Witnesses: "They have the same rhetoric" Newsweek article
by TerryWalstrom inhttps://www.newsweek.com/leah-remini-scientologists-jehovahs-witnesses-have-same-rhetoric-attacks-1267728?fbclid=iwar2myik_ojmxv66tzeu22ql5hnupir2ohgk9teucexkwa6ljcfzurbsih2g.
hey’re hoping that a&e will have enough pressure from disney, their parent company, [and] enough advertisers will pull out.
these are the tactics of scientology,” she added.. remini’s new season, unlike before, explored the jehovah’s witnesses in a two-hour special.
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"The difference between a religion and a cult is what happens to you when you try to leave."