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I would have thought the article might highlight that the little Canton Ohio airline the Beers family has a controlling stake in became the airline Florida governor DeSantis contracted with to carry undocumented immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard.
Otherwise, this is an important exposure of a right-wing grift that relies on people’s trust, gullibility, and desire for simplicity (and mistrust of Obamacare, with all that connotes) to make millions while staying ahead of the law mostly through opacity and legal shell games.
Will this story make a difference?
That’s special.
Looks like the Beers family takes being a non profit seriously though.
Only in this “developed” country could the Righteous Gemstones grift marks via “health insurance.”
Jesus was a known capitalist 
Rule of thumb: If a business (or an individual) claims to run on “Christian principles”, keep your hand covering your wallet.
When the perpetrators are out their starting new businesses and creating a Gordian Knot of ownership records who has time to wade through the plot. But the storyline follows another’s famous person’s mode and methods of keeping regulatory agencies busy.
Funny I would never has associated the family name Beers with Cosa Nostra.
It all sounds perfectly on brand for the kind of toxic Christianity Americans seem to love.
It is funny, and excuse the term, but the marks here will scream about “religious persecution,” and “government interference” to protect a conman’s right to scam them. Do they think being robbed by “Christians” earns them brownie points with God? How easy does this credulity around anything marked Christian make scams?
Not bloody likely
Just like Jesus used to do.
Yes, the real “CHRISTIAN” JESUS. Not that liberal troublemaker jesus.
When I ran a small manufacturing company there were several retailers who identified themselves as “Christian” or “Gospel” who “bought” my products. One of them was as honest as the day is long. All of the others cheated.
Yes. I learned this the hard way. All but one of those I dealt with cheated.
If you’re cheatin’ fer jesus, you’re doin’ the lord’s work.
Well, at least you realized that the one was the aberration and not the norm.
Adulteratin for Jesus.
Snorting crack for Jesus.
The list is pretty long, but you can still get the pass on incredulity if you say you’re Christian. And if you get caught, well you’re not perfect, just forgiven (again and again and again and again).
Perhaps they Americanized their name from the original (couldn’t roll the Rs?) - Le Birre (the Beers; singular would be La Birra).
Will it make a difference? Well, yes - WE will have yet another reason to never trust religious people.
On the Reich-wing side: they won’t care, fake news, Dems do it all the time, …
I wish news media (including TPM) would put scare quotes around the term “Christian” in cases like this. They may claim the label but there is nothing Christ-like in what this group is doing.