FLDS Cash Cows
There’s something sinister beneath the calm and placid demeanor of the Texas FLDS fembots. I’m not talking about the plural marriages, alleged statutory rapes or other emotional abuses. I’ve been researching the sect’s economics and it appears they’ve got the state by the balls, at least financially.
The patriarch and his first wife are legally married. Subsequent wives are bound to him spiritually, not legally. When the spiritual wives start their baby production train, they sign up for welfare as single moms with dependants. It’s legal and it’s a total rape of the system. FLDS members professed their moral purity on television all week long. This kind of financial scamming highlights the hypocrisy of their lifestyle and is just shameful; it’s also very smart.
Can you imagine the Yearning for Zion ranch mailboxes busting at the seams on the 15th of the month with hundreds of welfare checks? Ten years ago, the average welfare check in Texas paid the equivalent of a $7 per hour full-time job. Adjusted for cost of living increases and multiplied by about 200 women, that's a cool $300,000+ per month. The women turn the money over to the patriarchs who must surely pinch themselves. The men buy more land, build more compounds and bigger temples all the while paying no property taxes since the residences are considered religious grounds. Have you no shame, FLDS?
The patriarch and his first wife are legally married. Subsequent wives are bound to him spiritually, not legally. When the spiritual wives start their baby production train, they sign up for welfare as single moms with dependants. It’s legal and it’s a total rape of the system. FLDS members professed their moral purity on television all week long. This kind of financial scamming highlights the hypocrisy of their lifestyle and is just shameful; it’s also very smart.
Can you imagine the Yearning for Zion ranch mailboxes busting at the seams on the 15th of the month with hundreds of welfare checks? Ten years ago, the average welfare check in Texas paid the equivalent of a $7 per hour full-time job. Adjusted for cost of living increases and multiplied by about 200 women, that's a cool $300,000+ per month. The women turn the money over to the patriarchs who must surely pinch themselves. The men buy more land, build more compounds and bigger temples all the while paying no property taxes since the residences are considered religious grounds. Have you no shame, FLDS?
Apparently not. The group considers themselves doing God’s work and sees no harm in accepting financial aid from the outside if it allows them to flourish. Their compounds are literally self-sufficient with their own water treatment facility, grain fields and silos, schools and produce production. They take our money and contribute nothing in return to our society. So, it seems the ladies who look like caricatures of Mrs. Ingalls might have the last laugh after all.
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