Should LDS consider a progressive tithe structure?

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Should LDS consider a progressive tithe structure?

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Household Income ................ Temple worthy tithe
<30k .................................... 1%
<60k .....................................2%
<90k .....................................5%
<100k ...................................7%
<200k ................................... 10%
More ................................... >10%
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Re: Should LDS consider a progressive tithe structure?

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Absolutely. The leadership claim to be against unnecessary debt, but 10% is a VERY heavy burden even for those in the middle class, let alone at lower income levels. And, given the high birth rate among members, it's the children who suffer the most from the uninspired tithing policy.
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Re: Should LDS consider a progressive tithe structure?

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I was about to call you a socialist, until I saw that people making over 200k pay nothing.

I actually prefer the church's tithing model because it's voluntary. So you can pay 0% and you don't even have to be a savvy finance type.

Edit: You decided to gouge the rich. You really are a socialist:)
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Re: Should LDS consider a progressive tithe structure?

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DarkHelmet wrote:I was about to call you a socialist, until I saw that people making over 200k pay nothing.

A socialist? I don't think that word means what you think it means.
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Re: Should LDS consider a progressive tithe structure?

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It seems to me that the church could potentially increase tithing revenues with such a structure. I've heard rumors that the percentage of full tithe payers is pretty low. If they could increase the percentage of tithe payers with a new structure, they could potentially increase revenues. The way it is currently setup anything less than 10% makes you unworthy. So if you can't pay 10% you might as well pay nothing. It is easier to just skip paying tithing altogether then try to explain why you are paying less than 10%.
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Re: Should LDS consider a progressive tithe structure?

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The church should consider scrapping tithing altogether.

It should bring back the financial law of consecration instead. How's that for progressive?
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Re: Should LDS consider a progressive tithe structure?

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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.

When you graduate high school and start considering a lifetime of debt (education, a house, a car) and everything that made life as I once knew it possible as a child, tithing becomes much more complicated in my mind.
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Re: Should LDS consider a progressive tithe structure?

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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.
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Re: Should LDS consider a progressive tithe structure?

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I think the Church should produce a new tithing slip onto which you could allocate your payment to where you felt it should go.

New Tithing Slip

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.

You can apportion your ten percent across which ever areas you felt were most deserving.
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Re: Should LDS consider a progressive tithe structure?

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Drifting wrote:I think the Church should produce a new tithing slip onto which you could allocate your payment to where you felt it should go.

New Tithing Slip

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.

You can apportion your ten percent across which ever areas you felt were most deserving.


Agree, if they include humanitarian in there somewhere.
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B.R. McConkie, © Intellectual Reserve wrote:There are those who say that revealed religion and organic evolution can be harmonized. This is both false and devilish.
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