Jim Garlow Calls For A National Tax To Fund Church-Provided Healthcare

[workinclasszero]

Jim Garlow Calls For A National Tax To Fund Church-Provided Healthcare
By Safiyah Riddle | July 13, 2017 10:01 am

Last month, right-wing pastor Jim Garlow was interviewed by Megan West of the organization My Faith Votes, where he claimed that “healthcare is God’s issue” and suggested that the government should impose a tax on citizens that could be given to churches so that they could provide healthcare to the poor.

Garlow insisted that “the best medical care and welfare benefits can be done by the church” and should be funded through a “once every three years, ten-percent taxation on people” that would allocate money to “the faith communities.” According to Garlow, allowing the church to provide healthcare would “get rid of the freeloaders that abuse welfare.”

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/jim-garlow-calls-for-a-national-tax-to-fund-church-provided-healthcare/

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

1. Total Bull Shit.

What about the people who don't have and don't want a church?

Establishment clause.

Tax the churches.

[workinclasszero]

16. I'm sure all those right wing prosperity preacher con men and women

Could find many many many uses for that sweet taxpayer $$$ rolling in like clockwork every month.

Oh..uh..to help the poor and sick of course!

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

19. Exactly! And grifter Trump is happy to help other grifters like himself,

as long as they're with him politically, and they're spending someone else's money. Of course, he seems to think that all money is his, so there will have to be substantial kickbacks.

[SHRED]

2. Oh Hell no

Like the churches don't already get a tremendous tax break.

[dembotoz]

3. well hell why not...we already pay for religous indoctrination of kids with school vouchers

[NightWatcher]

4. I thought god could snap his fingers and fix everything???

This is just the poor persecuted christians wanting to steal from the US Treasury.

[Solly Mack]

5. No.

Crazy people with their nutcase ideas.

[Yavin4]

6. Um....Somehow I don't think that snakes will cure my arthritis. n.t.

[Initech]

7. Yeah that's just what we need - faith based healthcare discrimination.

[dawg]

8. "get rid of the freeloaders that abuse welfare"

Just like Jesus died on the cross to get rid of the freeloaders who would abuse salvation.

[NastyRiffraff]

9. So who gets to decide

which churches get the windfall? Some of these churches should be careful what they wish for. The fundies will very likely be the most influential. Anyone who doesn't believe their narrow, bigoted dogma will be left out.

[workinclasszero]

17. White, republican Jesus, prosperity preaching, dominunist theocracy teaching

churches only, no doubt about that.

And if you have a different faith or none well, TS. Looks like "God" has lain a curse on you poor fellow, now FO and die already ok?

[SamKnause]

10. Fuck you !!!

Tax the churches !!!

[David__77]

11. Somehow I don't expect he means the Nation of Islam.

Or other Islamic groups. Or Scientologists.

[GeorgeGist]

12. Tax churches instead.

[sinkingfeeling]

13. Yeah, I really want to have my surgery done at a Southern Baptist church.

[spanone]

14. the state already funds them....allows them to skirt taxes

[WinkyDink]

15. Who, who, and what? Not every minor nut is worthy of attention here.

[muriel_volestrangler]

18. He wants the power to declare others "freeloaders" and withhold healthcare from them

Thank goodness even the Republicans wouldn't listen to this, but it tells us something about this man: he thinks he has the right to decide who is worthy of having their health and lives saved, and who isn't.

[jmowreader]

20. Well, of course he did

You know where this is going: Unless the poor join their churches, they will not receive food, medical assistance or housing. And unless the poor work at their churches for free, doing all the menial labor they used to have to make the worthy do, they will not continue to receive these things.

[workinclasszero]

21. I think you have it

figured out.

[Vinca]

22. Hey, it's going to cost good money to feed all the snakes for the healing rituals.

[Volaris]

23. That we tried that before is why we now have soc sec and medicare

Because it didn't fucking work.