Isn't there a curious soul thinking about the cash flow?
From what I have heard a substantial amount of their money comes from welfare.
On one of the threads it said that the FLDS has their underage boys building homes etc. And that they underbid jobs to get them & then don’t pay the workers. Somebody might know what the thread was but I don’t remember, sorry.
On the fumarase deficiency thread, mention was made that approxomately 12 million in state aid went to the children who were diagnosed in Arizona, if I remember correctly. Add that to the state aid that the sect got for the unmarried mothers (spiritually married, but legally single) for their children. That right there is a lot of money. “Bleeding the beast” is what they are said to call the practice of getting state money.
In addition, the boys work for little or no money in the businesses run by FLDS which often get local government contracts. If they rebel, they are kicked out, google “Lost Boys.” Jeffs was, if I remember correctly, also charged with violating child labor laws; either him or one of his associates.
Pretty lucrative.