[On Kent Hovind's tax fraud]people on welfare fraudulently steal from you too. Where is your outrage over this?
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Even IF someone on welfare were collecting it fraudulently, that would in no way mitigate Hovind's multiple crimes. (I believe it was 58!)
I save my outrage for the proved crimes and the convicted criminal, thank you, not the purely hypothetical ones.
~David D.G.
Welfare recipients... everyone's favourite punching bag. I don't know what the situation is like in America, but here in the land of kangaroos, our welfare payments are below poverty level. Sure, there are some people who are fraudently claiming payments despite having an income, but for the vast majority of these welfare "cheats", life is pretty miserable.
I must say, certain people abuse the welfare system. Especially here in New York. So yeah. They piss me off too, Miss Liza.
Stupid people thinking they can read everyone's thoughts...
This is just sad. Trying to justify Hovind's unethical practices by judging people who actually need taxpayer money. Welfare is a government program. While there are those who use it fraudulently, the vast majority don't. Even though this is the case, it doesn't mean that Hovind is justified in what he did. He's guilty of tax fraud, plain and simple. He's where he should be, in jail. And he needs to stay there, getting that good ol' fashioned buttsecks.
Yeah, cause you get rich on welfare. And welfare people build creation-dino-parks and charge admission and then claim no income.And all those videos those jerks on welfare produce and sell while still claiming welfare.
Hell, I'll bet a lot of Hovinds employees were encouraged to apply (some of them claimed no income at his advice as well)
I'm mad at them, too, but at least they usually don't go about, loudly and publicly claiming moral superiority while doing so fifty-eight times.
You sir are an Idiot and a greedy bastard...
What happened to Helping those in need??
Doesn't your holy book say something about helping others or am i just thinking about the care bears again..
:3
People on welfare generally don't have an agenda, other than survival.
Hovind, on the other hand, uses his religion to cover his crimes, to make a living off of ignorance, and then expects the taxpayers to foot the bill.
When earlier on given options to pay his fines and back taxes Hovind suggested his followers could do that maybe. I'm betting most his followers are also incapable of handling anything but the most menial of jobs and are on some assistance, you can't be to bright if you believe Hovinds "theories" or credentials.
Nope, sorry Elizabeth, but you can't. Hovind's not just a con-man, he's also bad at it but in America you can pull some of the most ridiculous shit imaginable if you aim it at the knowledge hating fundamentalists crowd. Why do you think Comfort and Ham came to America to build their bullshit empires?
In other words you have no defense for him so let's change the subject to Welfare Queens.
This is their argument for Oil Companies being free of taxes and recieving subsidies on top of it too, "Welfare, food stamps, Bengazi!"
Deflection. Stay on the topic or admit you can't defend him.
"Fuck the poor!" award, anyone? True there are some who cheat the system, but most people on welfare are honest and in legitimate need. And like others have said, even those that cheat the system don't claim to be moral authorities.
Even those on welfare pay Sales Tax on groceries, just as VAT exists here in the UK.
Every Little Helps. [/Tesco's]
Question: Did Jesus recompense the local wine merchants for their loss of trade, when he pulled that little stunt at that wedding...?!
@Violet Beauregarde
"Fuck the poor!"
I'm suddenly reminded of that exact line used in the 'French Revolution' segment of the criminally underrated Mel Brooks film "History of the World (Part I)". Thanks for the chuckle-cum-nostalgia bomb! b^_^d
Count de Monet (Harvey Korman): 'Your majesty, you look like the piss boy!'
King Louis XVI (Mel Brooks): 'And you look like a bucket of shit! ' X3
It was in the bit about the Roman Empire, Moose, not the French Revolution.
"Fellow members of the Roman Senate, shall we continue to build palace after palace for the rich, or shall we aspire to a more noble purpose and construct decent housing for the poor? How does the Senate vote?"
"Fuck the poor!"
"Good."
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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