Editorial “Taxing situation for city, county” observes:
“In all, Lancaster General Hospital voluntarily pays $6 million a year to Lancaster city, county and school districts and municipalities where it has facilities…
“Yet the payments are a fraction of what they would be had the nonprofit hospital been on the tax rolls.
“On the Barshinger facility, for example, the hospital is paying about 16 percent of what it would if it were a taxable entity.”
WATCHDOG: Two wags of the tail for the editors who finally prick the myth that Lancaster General Hospital is paying the same taxes as if they were not tax exempt. They aren’t.
But in the “people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones” department, they might mention that the Lancaster Newspapers, Inc. along with the High Group connived so that their hotel, the Marriott, would be the only one in the county exempt from all real estate taxes!
LNP is like the pot calling the kettle black!!!!
DISGUSTING that they would have the audacity to address taxes when they are the beneficiary of a tax-exempt profit-maker!!!!