Capitalist bastards!!
When will the Workers of the world throw off the shackles of their proletariat & the bugeoisee masters? How many more Mormon success stories must we endure?
Hey, I'm 100% for capitalism as well...but when we give non-profit status to such capitalists operating under the guise of a "church" (vs. the incorporation it is)...that gives the Mormon church an unfair competitive commercial advantage.
Even an Lds church member facing this was disturbed enough to comment publicly in AgWeekly:
Farmers face off with LDS Church
Are you critiquing this Lds farmer?
Declo farmer Mark Darrington, however, is also concerned the church intended to take over management and does not see that as being in the best interest of his community. "I am an active member of the Mormon Church, but facts is facts,” he said. “I did not want them to turn this into a big corporate farm because of the impact on the local community.” For one, he said, “local vendors are bypassed. I think that puts a bad taste not just in non-members’ mouth but also in members’ mouth.” ...He said the church setting up a large entity and garnering large potato contracts would have an adverse effect...“The church tends to not cooperate with growers,” he said.
Additionally, the Mormon church has -- beyond its 55,000 young missionaries -- 20,000 "service missionaries" -- most of whom are retired...
Many of them will come to the huge farms the Lds church owns & operates in states like Florida, Washington, Idaho, Hawaii, etc. -- and work for free...In fact, they pay their way.
So if the Lds church doesn't have to pay taxes on its commercial enterprises -- some of which is indeed used for non-profit purposes...and doesn't have to pay its workers...(in fact, their workers pay them)...you can see that is lucrative "capitalism."
A private group of people of there own free will join together to do something collectively is no more communist then a husband wife and kid , a Church pot luck, or a barn raising...private free will vs public government imposed....by that logic a free republic fund raising is a tax on the public