Well, This Changes Everything
I thought we were probably stuck with Trump’s tariffs until …
Well, we can’t be having that, can we? Come to find out, two of the major Bible printers in America outsource the printing to China. Evangelical preachers hand out these Bibles to get donations back. If the Bible starts costing more than the donations, these poor preachers will have to give up their mansions and fancy cars.
This article claims that 150 million Bibles are printed every year in China and shipped to the United States. Ya know, I counted and that’s plenty. The way I figure it, we only need two years worth to cover everybody. What are people doing with the Bibles already here and handed out for free by preachers? Burning them or something?
And get this free walk for Donald Trump.
HarperCollins Christian Publishing President and CEO Mark Schoenwald recently told the U.S. Trade Representative that the company believes the Trump administration “never intended to impose a ‘Bible Tax’ on consumers and religious organizations,” according to a transcript of his remarks provided by the publisher.
He initiated a Bible tax but, y’all, he didn’t mean to do it.
Yeah, that sounds about right.
Thanks to Mari for the heads up.
Why does this please me so much?
1This would be a better country with fewer bibles and guns.
2Rolling papers. Holy smoke.
3I don’t think it will matter…they don’t read the Bible in the first place, and their actions prove it.
4Not to worry. The onshore Bible reserves, hoarded over the years in the night stands of no-tell-motels, Howard Johnson’s and the like which have not seen the light of day since police stopped the speeding automobile of Arkansas Democrat Wilbur D. Mills, one of Mills’s passengers, a burlesque performer with the stage name Fanne Foxe, dove into the Tidal Basin – and into Washington folklore.
A politician’s drunken adultery retold ad nauseum. Thanks Jesus, keep your damn Bibles.
See photo: Before long the details of Mills’s alcoholism, extramarital relationship with Foxe, and bizarre behavior were splashed onto the front pages. Mills lost first his chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee and then his seat in Congress, choosing retirement in 1976 rather than a difficult reelection campaign.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/frenzy/mills.htm?noredirect=on
5Evangelicals?
Anybody home?
Tariffs on the word of God?
… didn’t think so. Unless the crickets have converted.
6If Congress wouldn’t read a 400 page Mueller report why would anyone think they’d read a 2,000+ page book? BTW, are Bibles still exempt from sales tax in TX?
7“You can buy a copy of the Bible at Walmart for $6. Pay a little more and several other versions or formats are available there.”
https://justcallmepastor.wordpress.com/2015/11/30/how-much-does-a-bible-really-cost/
8Well look at fancy Fred Farklestone @8, buying rich folks bibles at Walmart for $6. The rest of us get them at the Dollar Tree for 1/6 that price. And then to not wear it out or show disrespect, it gets put on a shelf and never read anyway.
[Just joking, FF. I’m sure you’re every bit as underpaid as the rest of us.]
9Thanks for the out loud laugh, Buttermilk Sky.
10oh no the cost of TP just went up.
11Can someone explain to me just why we need a steady stream of new bibles? It seems to me that anyone who wants one surely should have had one before now.
Do they get used up and worn out somehow?
Is it being revised and everyone wants the new edition?
WTF?
12Buttermilk Sky:
13Thanks for that. After Rita, Ike, and Harvey, folks in my neck of the woods get a might twitchy when weather maps start showing possible red zones over where we live.
But that made me snort.
I mean hey, Zig-Zag’s been using Jesus’s face for decades.
China is China is China. Like taxes are taxes are taxes. Oops!drumph made another boo boo.
14Oh,you know there will be a carve out for bibles. And Trump hats. Because that’s how trade deals work.
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