Carl Schneider: Romney seems to favor needy Mormons over needy non-Mormons
Carl Schneider
12:20 p.m. EDT, September 4, 2012
Mitt Romney advocates lowering federal taxes but believes the Mormon church tax is OK. He seems to believe federal tax money to help poor people in the form of food stamps, health care and other services is wasetful. Although Romney supposedly pays only about 13% of his net income in federal taxes he is proud to pay 10% of his gross income to the Mormon church. A tithe requested by the Mormon church is equivalent to a tax. I do not resent Mitt supporting the Mormon church but apparently he is much more willing to help needy Mormons than needy non-Mormons.
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#1 by Kevin on September 17, 2012 - 8:01 AM
Mormons (which I am NOT one and which I have many problems with) do have a very sensible way of helping the poor. They believe that the best way to help those who are poor is to keep them accountable. The Mormon church places heavy rules on how money is given that not only helps them eat for the day, but to feed themselves in the future.
#2 by doug on September 17, 2012 - 8:42 AM
Aside from the rather sloppy assumption made about why Romney pays tithes, this bigotted commentary avoids the fact that the LDS church has given $1,100,000,000 directly to non-Mormons over that last 10 years.