Republican Senate candidate: Welfare programs are ‘all sin’ and ‘legalized plunder’

[Katashi_itto]

Welfare programs that help the poor are based on sin, according to South Carolina state Sen. Lee Bright (R-Spartanburg).

Bright, who is challenging U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham in the Republican primary, was speaking at an event hosted by the Summerville 912 Group in December when he was asked about his view on the tax code. He said that he supported a flat tax.

“The tax code is where they control us,” Bright added. “I mean, you can point it all back to the income tax for much of our problems. It plays on coveting, you know what I mean? It is all sin. I want what my brother has, so why don’t I and my other brother get together and we’ll vote away what my brother has. I mean, it is legalized plunder, it is theft. That’s what it is.”


“And this entitlement to other people’s property because you want their stuff is just wrong,” he continued. “And I think most of our problems in our country are spiritual problems, but there again it is about liberty. And liberty is just the right to keep what is yours. And when you raise taxes and put that burden on people you take away their freedom. And what they do is that is how they control us, with that tax code. I mean, it is obscene. And I’m getting beat up on this and I actually made [Chris Matthews' show]. I made his show last Friday.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/13/republican-senate-candidate-welfare-programs-are-all-sin-and-legalized-plunder/

[Turbineguy]

1. You'll have plenty of time to create

misery in hell. Why create it on Earth?

[lpbk2713]

2. Some of them think appealing to the nutjob fringe is the key to victory.

And some actually listen.

But I find it amusing.

[Thinkingabout]

3. I wonder if he is smart enough to know the taxes he is conplaining about will be used

To pay his salary. When idiots like this speak they confirm just how stupid they really are.

[Live and Learn]

4. Is he a Satanist?

Certainly seems like he is preaching for the satanic church. Or is this a new religion for the rich?

[El_Johns]

6. Sure seems like it to me. Maybe that explains why government sucks so much these days.

Rosemary's Congressperson.

[Live and Learn]

8. LOL It does feel like we have been taken over sometimes.

I liken the feeling to a twilight episode. Or several of them. Thinking it might be time to move on to Hitchcock episodes, though. Or Steven King, nightmares?

[jsr]

5. The loon is a failed businessman who has been leeching off taxpayers:

http://www.goupstate.com/article/20130416/ARTICLES/304161027

Bright, R-Roebuck, and his business, On Time Trucking Inc., dismissed a counterclaim against Capital Bank on Tuesday in an ongoing foreclosure proceeding regarding the company's property at 189 Becknell Drive in Roebuck.

[El_Johns]

7. Good catch. They're all damn liars and hypocrites.

[pampango]

9. I was guessing the OP was about Paul Broun of Georgia. Can't tell the crazy tea party guys

apart without a program.

[Katashi_itto]

10. Agree, I can only tell a few, the crazy is thick and they all sound the same

[ananda]

11. Lee Bright, who isn't.

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