Rick Warren Derides The Tax Paying Poor As His Church Pays No Taxes: "The nation’s tax system offers many benefits to every citizen and none is more important than a sense of contributing to America’s greatness that is shared by ever person who is not a 10-year-old child who is unable to work or purchase anything with their own funds. Although taxpayer dollars fund the military, police and fire protection, roads, bridges, and myriad other government provided benefits, the sentiment of investing in America should help bring people together with a sense of mutual participation in maintaining a great nation. Ever since the rise of the teabagger movement, there has been a fallacy that half of Americans do not pay any taxes and it has led teabags and their ultra-conservative brethren to decry the lack of involvement by the poor in having any value to America. Last Monday, a super-wealthy Christian preacher joined teabaggers in criticizing poor people, seniors, and many lower-middle class Americans for advocating raising taxes on the top 2% of Americans who continue receiving tax cuts regardless that the country’s economic status is less than wonderful..."To have a 'man of God' say something like this pisses me right the fuck off. What a hypocrite. Warren, I suggest that you go read Matthew 25. I'm also glad I've never read your book A Purpose Driven Life. Especially since it was written by a filthy hypocrite like you. >:(
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This had me fired up and I was going to quote Matthew 25, until I got to the point where you wrote it down. This is really wrong. He is not following Christ, if he is not working for the poor, or helping the oppressed. And I will never read a book by him. What a dick! I think that if his church is going to be a political organization, it should pay taxes.
I'm pretty fired up about it too! How can you be a 'man of God' and say something like this?! Especially when you, yourself, don't pay any freaking taxes either! I hope all of his church goers find another church and that he's left with nothing!
Did he later clarify that he was talking about the poor (or is the "half the American people" talking point no doubt conjured up by Cato/AEI/AFP/etc. implicitly about the poor)?
I'd probably be the last to defend Warren on public statements (he's almost as bad with the Bible as he is with general policy), but he could've been talking about big effing corporations who claim billions in profit on their balance sheets and somehow manage to finagle no taxes to report to the IRS.
Yeah, I know. Not likely.
You do make a good point though because I don't think he ever clarified which group he was talking about.
Oh, don't give me too much credit-- the tax-dodging corporations can't be half the population.
They may not be but that's what most of our representatives think :|
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