ajax18 wrote:Tithing was easier when I was a kid and didn't have to use my money to pay bills. 10% went to the Church and the rest pretty much went to my mission fund.
Hmph. It seems to me that your mission fund should be tithing deductible.
I'm blown away that missionaries have to pay their own way. How can the Church sell that to new members?
It's like door to door vacuum cleaner salesmen donating their time and paying their own expenses, never sharing in the profits. Why bother?
This, or any other post that I have made or will make in the future, is strictly my own opinion and consequently of little or no value.
"Faith is believing something you know ain't true" Twain.
Manuals & Materials New Chapels New Temples BYU Interest Bearing Investments General Authority Stipends General Authority Expenses, cars etc. Church Educational Employee's Etc, you get the picture.
Best idea ever. And it wouldn't surprise me if there were still enough funds contributed for the GAs to maintain their current lifestyle even if the membership did know and could choose.
I think you'd have to grow up Mormon and be in the culture to understand the pressure to serve a full 2 year mission.
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
$1,000/year in tithing instead yielding a conservative 5% in an investment account would result in an inflation adjusted approx $175k at the the end of a 40 year career. The "sacrifice" involved in tithing should never simply be viewed as the current out of pocket amount, but rather the astronomical loss of potential income over time.
"I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam. ... Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus ever did it. I boast that no man ever did such a work as I." - Joseph Smith, 1844
If those percentages are after taxes and household expenses I think this is a great idea. I don't think people living in poverty should pay a single dime in tithing.
~Those who benefit from the status quo always attribute inequities to the choices of the underdog.~Ann Crittenden ~The Goddess is not separate from the world-She is the world and all things in it.~
just me wrote:If those percentages are after taxes and household expenses I think this is a great idea. I don't think people living in poverty should pay a single dime in tithing.
And, if one has a clever accountant, no one would need to pay tithes. It's easy to show no profit (prophet) if you cook the books right.
This, or any other post that I have made or will make in the future, is strictly my own opinion and consequently of little or no value.
"Faith is believing something you know ain't true" Twain.
just me wrote:If those percentages are after taxes and household expenses I think this is a great idea. I don't think people living in poverty should pay a single dime in tithing.
And, if one has a clever accountant, no one would need to pay tithes. It's easy to show no profit (prophet) if you cook the books right.
Truth!
~Those who benefit from the status quo always attribute inequities to the choices of the underdog.~Ann Crittenden ~The Goddess is not separate from the world-She is the world and all things in it.~
Morley wrote:Many Mormons don't want a progressive tax structure. Why would they back a progressive tithe?
They'll do whatever god tells them to do and they'll like it!
~Those who benefit from the status quo always attribute inequities to the choices of the underdog.~Ann Crittenden ~The Goddess is not separate from the world-She is the world and all things in it.~