Anybody know where this group gets its funding?
They tax all the people of Texas, forcing them to pay up and then they build offices and have more taxes for all the lawyers and ...
Oh! That's it. Where does the religious cult get its funding? I have heard that they are heavily into welfare, with multiple payments to "single mothers" (who are actually plural wives) and so funds pile up in group households. Men in the group also have businesses in construction and so forth - small contractors.
Mostly the american tax payer. Appears the church doesn’t like outsiders and considers us evil, but they love our money. The men legally marry one woman, then “spiritually” marry the rest of their wives. The wives are then considered single mothers in the eyes of the state. Some of these women have 8 to 10 children and they collect the benefits for each child as single monthers. They also use every loophole in the book to avoid paying taxes on their property or any income they make.
When Warren Jeffs was arrested, it was reported the FLDS church had over 200 million in its coffers.
Hell imagine the financial windfall from Bush’s economic stimulus package. I’m sure they will going to file for it.
400 children * $300 credit = $120,000. That would go a long way to continue funding their child rape factory.
“Anybody know where this group gets its funding?”
welfare fraud.
They detest the outside world, but are quite willing to live off the earnings of outsiders.
This is (forewarning) a pro-polygamy site that has an archived editorial on convicted child rapist, welfare cheat, and bigamist Tom Green: http://www.pro-polygamy.com/articles.php?news=0022
Interesting that people who freely advocate polygamy amongst adults don't like the FLDS any more than the rest of society.
A quick search using the terms "welfare fraud" and "polygamy" will give you all you need to know; mostly that you and I pay for these people to break the law and abuse children.
Besides welfare fraud, there's this:
"The Defense Department awarded $1.2 million in contracts to an aircraft parts supplier linked to the West Texas polygamist retreat that has been unraveled by a massive child welfare investigation, according to a newspaper report.
New Era Manufacturing, based in Nevada, where the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is primarily based, also received a $900,000 federal small-business loan in 2005, according to records found by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
John Nielsen, a former employee who worked for the company when it was known as Utah-based Western Precision in 2005, said in a 2005 affidavit as part of a civil lawsuit that church members were made to work for little or no wages.
Nielsen said in the affidavit that he and other sect members thought their work would bring them redemption, while $50,000 to $100,000 in company profits were given each month to the church "and/or" Jeffs.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported last year that JNJ Engineering, another company owned and operated by church leaders, won $11.3 million in government contract work from the Las Vegas Valley Water District. All but one of the contract workers came from Hildale and Colorado City, Ariz., where most of the sect's 10,000 members live."
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5700799.html