Well-heeled, tax-exempt charlatan
By RICHARD DAWKINS - WASHINGTONPOST.COM
Added: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:00 UTC
Well-heeled, tax-exempt charlatan
It is not particularly remarkable that a mountebank like Oral Roberts should succeed in conning his followers out of their money. As P T Barnum observed, there's a sucker born every minute. If people are that stupid and choose to hand over their money to an obvious fake, that is their privilege. What should concern the rest of us is that the scams pulled off by well-heeled charlatans like Roberts are tax free.
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