Child-Regifting Job Creator Justin Harris Got $4 Million In Tax Funds For Jesus Pre-School

[niyad]

grab that cash with both hands and make a stash


Child-Regifting Job Creator Justin Harris Got $4 Million In Tax Funds For Jesus Pre-School


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These big David Byrne suits dont' just grow on trees, you know.

Hey, we bet you’d like to read a story about sleazy child-regifting monster Justin Harris that isn’t about his sleazy child regifting for a change, wouldn’t you? Lord knows we have plenty of those already, and the whole sordid mess isn’t nearly finished playing itself out. Instead, let’s learn a bit more about Justin Harris, the small-government entrepreneur who says that government never created a single job — no, really, he said that — and who liked to brag in campaign ads about all the jobs he created at his “Growing God’s Kingdom” preschool in West Fork, Arkansas. Turns out he and his wife, Marsha, had a little help creating those jobs!

While we already noted that most of his funding came from state and federal government grants for low-income kids, now we know the price tag to the good people of Arkansas, their Department of Human Services (DHS), and the rest of the United States: Over $4 million in state and federal funds since 2010. Thank goodness all that money was going to a small-government conservative, or it might have been wasted!


According to DHS, Harris has received more than $4,195,651 from public program funds for his Growing God’s Kingdom preschool since 2010.

The department’s data show the following money has been distributed since 2010:

$547,619 from the USDA for free or reduced lunches for young children
$2.7 million from the Arkansas Better Chance state-funded pre-K
$945,580 from the Child Care Development Fund that helps pay for childcare for qualifying families.

Hey, we thought there was no such thing as a free lunch! But apparently there are $100,000 worth at just one preschool, each and every year! (For the record, we like free school lunches, and we are not the jerk-offs trying to ban them.)

But while that may seem like a lot of money, you have to remember that it was paying for lots of little kids to get a good Christian education, the way Jesus and the Constitution He wrote intended. And after Americans United for Separation of Church and State investigated the pre-school, DHS did tell Harris to knock it off with the in-school prayers, which he said he would, and so he probably did, maybe.

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[yeoman6987]

1. Our tax rules are so screwed up

Not just this case but many. We have so many non profits that are exempt and even given grants. Millionaires are begging to pay more but don't have a mechanism to do it since Congress won't act. A simple 5 percent for everyone under 50 grand. 15 percent for those up to 100k. 25 percent for those up to 250 and 40 percent for everyone else. No exemption or write offs. No hiding money. This can be done but too many dumb people in this good ole United States.

[niyad]

2. our tax system is indeed a mess.

not to mention the hypocrisy of a "small government" advocate raking it in.

[yeoman6987]

3. I agree but since the laws allow for such a thing he would be

doubly stupid not to take advantage of it. Nobody has even discussed serious tax reform. I would like to see Barry take it up.