Creationist Museum Tax Fraud

| Thu Aug. 6, 2009 11:03 AM PDT
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A Pensacola judge has green lighted the government seizure of Pensacola's Dinosaur Adventure Land, a creationist theme park whose owners, Kent and Jo Hovind, owe $430,400 in federal taxes. The Hovinds' excuse for not paying was that they were employed by God and thus could claim zero income and property.

According to the Pensacola News Journal, the government will sell off the Hovinds' property to pay the debt. Not sure exactly what those properties are, but the park's website offers a few clues:

Learn about dinosaurs, principles of science, and even how to make a paper airplane that can fly over 300 feet! Handle our real, live creatures and take the Leap of Faith swing. Enjoyable and educational for all ages, it is specifically targeted for kids under a million years of age!

Be prepared to be challenged to think and to follow the Lord in the way God the Creator has planned for you. If you do not know your Creator, we will be overjoyed to introduce you to Him.

Our funny and experienced guides will lead your family or group on the tour, declaring the works of the Lord and the words of the Lord.

DAL is not an amusement park, for “amuse” means “to not think,” and we want people to think. Rather, it is an amazement park.

So I wonder what's to become of all the park's statues and critters? And what's the going rate for a Leap of Faith swing these days, anyway?

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Another Creationist Tax Fraud

Freaks.

clearly, giving to Caesar

clearly, giving to Caesar what is Caesar's was not in the special crazyperson Biblethe Hovinds found.

Yaaagh!

Now the gummint wantsa tax yore Bibull!

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"Employed by God????"

That is just T O O G O O D!!!!! A creationist theme park created by creative tax cheats!!!!!

And, by the way, what does a "Leap of Faith" swing do exactly?

What a "Leap of Faith" swing does

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It only swings in one direction. Any apparent swinging in the other direction is just an illusion put there by the devil to test your faith.

Oh sugar! Now I won't be

Oh sugar!
Now I won't be able to go to the Adam and Eve procreating funhouse.

is that the funhouse next to

is that the funhouse next to the sodom and gomorrah experience?

parade

It's just a "steady parade of stupid." To think they thought they didn't have to pay taxes because they were "employed by God" makes you wonder how they had enough sense to dress themselves in the morning.

It's not get dressed in the

It's not get dressed in the morning that they have a problem with, it's getting undressed at nite.

Employed by God so they

Employed by God so they don't need to pay taxes. Are you sure this isn't something out of the Onion? By the way I just did bought one of the electric car kits, or electric car conversion kits, and it worked great. Electric vehicle conversion is where it's at today!

income Tax American debate

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the 1913 Income Tax Bill and the Federal Reserve is not legal was never ratified by the states and therefore not legal and still isn' found in the law of the land so Hovind is right and is not going against the laws of Caesar of the United States of America it's just not enough people are standing up against this fraud that is the IRS and "The FED"

Bills don't have to be

Bills don't have to be ratified by the states, constitutional amendments do, and the 16th Amendment was ratified by forty-two states, well over the thirty-six states required.

The Federal Reserve was created by Congressional law and does not require ratification by the states. It is "found in the law of the land" by simply going to title 12, chapter 3 of the US legal code:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/12/usc_sup_01_12_10_3.html

Therefore, both the income tax and the Federal Reserve System are part of the legal system as much as any other amendment or legislation. Maybe you are confused?

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