Brett Weinstein (29:46)
Right, Exactly. Now, we've talked about the spiritual daughter flirtation method. His other way of appealing to the women that he wanted to go after was much simpler. And I'm going to quote again from the News Herald. According to Yohi Taylor made a habit of buying her Expensive gifts, including lobatine red bottom shoes, a fur coat, and a Jaguar sedan. During their relationship, she said some of the money for gifts came from jmmi. That's the church accounts, he said. God just spoke to him to bless me with a car, she said, so that money for my car actually came from Joshua Media Ministries? Absolutely. He says that. He doesn't deny that. He says yes. Our ministry blesses other ministries with vehicles sometimes. Now, if you're wondering is that tax fraud to give your mistress a card using church money, the answer is yes. Yes. Although in a way that isn't easy necessarily to prove or get done, right? This isn't the thing that gets caught easily. And in fact, most of the shit like this happens all the time with a bunch of different church churches in the US and it usually does not get caught, right? Churches are tax exempt, so they don't have to pay taxes on donations for the church to use to conduct its normal business of existing as a church. But that doesn't mean that churches and church pastors or other kinds of church leaders just don't ever have to pay taxes. For example, if your church pays a salary to the pastor or priest or whatever, they still have to pay payroll taxes, right? It's the same if they pay taxes to their workers, they still pay payroll taxes, right? Churches are not exempt from that sort of thing. Like that's just the way, right? Like it's one thing the church should. The church, for example, shouldn't have to pay. This is the way the law works. I'm not saying I agree with this or disagree with this, but the church does not have to pay like a property tax for their church to continue to exist as a church. But once the money is going, accounts as like a salary that you pay money on as normal, right? And so if you're paying the pastor millions of dollars to buy luxury cars and a private jet and live in mansions, that money's supposed to be taxed. But if the church just buys luxury cars and a private jet that are the church's property, then they can get away without paying taxes. It just so happens that the cult leader is the only one who gets to use them, right? And this is because it works. Usually, I think there's a degree to which, and this is Taylor has probably crossed the line because the IRS is after him. But you can get away with a lot in this regard, right? Like churches often do get away with a lot. No, that's not my private jet. It's the ministry's private jet. Right. But once you're buying your mistress a car, well, that's not the same. That's not a church expense. And so she is expected to pay. You should be paying taxes on that. Right? Someone should be paying taxes on these gifts. Right. Because you can't give gifts over a certain amount and not have them be taxed. You know, so there is a bunch of tax fraud going on here. Right. I'm both pointing out that there's a lot you can get away with as a church in terms of tax exempt stuff. And Taylor is, is constantly exceeding that remit. Like, he is absolutely committing tax crimes. It's just it takes a while for this to get caught. Because for one thing, the IRS is kind of scared of going after churches in the U.S. right? Because why is that? Well, for one thing, it's really bad pr. Whenever a Republican is in office, it becomes a lot easier for them to get away with this. But the Democrats, like administrations don't really want that kind of fight either because the church will always say, oh, this is discrimination. This is anti Christian discrimination. They're coming after me because of my faith. Right. And it's just easier to ignore it. And that is usually what happens. Right. And this is a part of the massive problem we have because these churches often, I mean, there's a lot that they often do. Like, it's incredibly common for churches to basically like expressly give political orders or tell the congregation, this is how you should vote. This is who you should support politically. And churches aren't supposed to be able to do that and keep their tax exempt status, but they do all the time because everyone's scared of pissing these people off.
