There are good stories and bad stories out there. I’m glad your parents were the recipients of good and not bad. I know people that had bad experiences and even got letters saying they were no longer baptised because they wanted out. They were so distraught, I had a hard time reminding them that God knows their hearts and that the LDS church couldn’t take away their baptism. Oh, and why they left? Because they were dirt poor and couldn’t pay their tithing bills that kept coming in the mail. These elders had been to their home and could see what I saw. Broken steps, peeling paint and wallpaper. A few years later the house was condemned, that’s how bad it was, yet, they were sent tithing bills they couldn’t pay and they asked to leave because they couldn’t pay the tithes. For that, they got a letter saying they were unbaptised.
“Oh, and why they left? Because they were dirt poor and couldn’t pay their tithing bills that kept coming in the mail.”
That’s the kind of distortion I’ve been talking about. There is no such thing as a “tithing bill.” Payment is entirely voluntary, and not paying it is not as excommunicable offense. The only ramification of not paying tithing is that you cannot be a temple recommend holder.
No one has EVER been kicked out of the LDS Church for not paying tithing. You may be representing the story accurately as you heard it, but somebody in the chain of information is lying.
Now, as to the poor, they are taken care of by the fast offering funds of the church. IF there are not sufficient funds in the local congregation of fast offerings to help with food, bills, mortgage, etc, then funds are taken from the general FO fund of the church to make up the difference. The poor are cared for, not mocked, abused and discarded. I honestly don’t know why you would post such a thing?