• t3rmit3@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Utah doesn’t do more for those in need in part because a contingent of its lawmakers, the overwhelming majority of whom are Latter-day Saints themselves, assume the church is handling the poverty issue; they also are loath to raise taxes to do the state’s share, a review of Utah’s legislative history demonstrates.

    “I made it so you can’t get help from them, only from me, and now I’m helping you, contingent on you doing what I tell you to. Aren’t I so nice and kind?”

    This was not religious people trying to do good, this was religious people abusing legislative power to force people into their sphere of influence.