>Imagine being required to give 10 to 20 percent of your income to a political party. I don't need to imagine it. I pay my f-ing taxes. Between income, sales

>Imagine being required to give 10 to 20 percent of your income to a political party. I don't need to imagine it. I pay my f-ing taxes. Between income, sales, property, fuel, sin taxes and government fees the state tax burden is probably close to 20%. Just like the Mormon church then go on to spend that money, a lot of it on good stuff that is helpful to everyone, but a ton of it is also spent on cronyism, make-work BS, enriching the leadership and those connected to it (with pretexts of course, they're not amateurs at this) and expanding the organization itself. Utah is the same as any other one-party state. It just so happens that the values-defining "club" that nearly everyone at every level of government belongs to is religious and not overtly political. Why is this so hard for you people to grasp?