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“I wasn’t aware it was that much money."
– Republican legislator
Taxes are going up in Missouri. So is lying.
Meanwhile the schools and roads suck.
G-D that’s my state senator! What an 'effing weasel.
Tax credits for fake Medical Centers,
What ever happened to “Show Me”?
"Show Me, We Hardly Knew Ye."
Rieman said the experience was “a clear example of a policy that was passed by the General Assembly and Governor without any real public process or consideration of what the fiscal impact would be to the state.”
Feature, not bug.
Righteousness, monetized. Like that whole Sermon on the Mount thing never happened at all.
Good use of resources that could otherwise add to the general revenue of the state - especially since the legilature and governor keep fighting to prevent expansion of Medicaid that was approved by the voters, one purported reason being because “it costs too much.”
Odds are that as soon as abortion is declared illegal, I predict most of the crisis pregnancy centers will close…their mission is strictly to draw women away from a real abortion, when there’s no longer abortions allowed they don’t really have a reason to exist. Some may stay open, either because people who actually believe in helping women run them, and some may be grifting money like the ones detailed here.
Not mentioned in the piece or in the comments - who do you think runs these centers?
This is money for churches. Start looking a little closer and you’ll see it everywhere in these red state budgets.
This is about making money for evangelicals, sure as guns.
I think you’re optimistic. They’ll stay open because there’s a grift to be done. And the work of preventing women from attempting pharmaceutical abortions or going out of state. And the additional grift of steering women to cooperating adoption brokers.
With this tax credit, there’s also the possibility of kickback arrangements that will yield the “donors” a net profit.