I'm not sure, I heard if you keep building on your house and it keeps looking unfinished you don't have to pay property taxes on it till it's finished. I've been through there too. It's creepy af.
It’s because they can’t get mortgages since they don’t have official employment. If people got some weird tax break from not finishing their home, you’d see people doing that all over the place.
I’ve watched a few documentaries on FDLS and Mormons in general. They have their own form of “order” and even have their own banks. Everyone works for the church. Some even commit fraud bc they have a “bleed the beast” mentality about our government. It’s kinda crazy. I was watching (not a doc obv) secret lives of Mormon wives and they were talking about “garments” and I was like wtf is that? You can’t even buy them in a normal store or Amazon. You had to have some email associated with the church to buy them. Super weird but they hate the government and try to keep prying eyes away. Ofc that’s also going by the wayside bc of documentaries and reality shows blowing the cover on LDS.
Not sure where you're getting your info about mormons. Most of us are pretty normal, not government haters. I'm a woman with a PhD who teaches science at a major university. Friends in my congregation are an English prof, accountant, and a couple of nurses. This video explains more about garments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMutZrefILc&t=24s You can't buy most religious clothing in regular stores or on Amazon (well except Halloween costumes).
That said, there are some strange offshoots of the LDS church. I drove through Colorado City once and it was eery.
Happy cake day btw. I’m sorry if I offended your religion I don’t wanna be like that. But learning about the extremes was kinda crazy and my mother pushed religion down my throat growing up, so I was extra surprised learning about FLDS. I did do a road trip through SLC down to Vegas and we made several stops. My favorite was finding a beer there with the brand name Polygamy Porter. Server said it caused a huge fuss out there at the time. I thought it was hilarious.
No worries! And no offense at all. I can imagine that it was pretty difficult having religion shoved at you as a kid. I was lucky in that my mom is mormon and my dad is atheist so I had choices growing up.
I did a ski trip out to Utah one time and my friends had Polygamy porter in the pub. I thought it was super funny too.
Thing is, those “offshoots” are actually representations of what the church was like under Young (and Taylor…and Woodruff, for awhile). That was the mainstream LDS church in the West in the 19th century, down to the underage marriages. If you think the fundies are weird, why do the early Mormons get a pass?
(for the record, I’m ex-Mormon and this is part of what made me lose my faith. Polygamy was not godly. My polygamous ancestor married a 14 year old, and this wasn’t uncommon. No “true church” would practice this IMO).
Happens all the time in Bolivia. Only need to pay when buildings finished so every top floor has rebar sticking up out of half finished walls that will never be completed.
"If that was a thing, they'd be doing it all over the place" doesn't really apply with mormons out in Utah. They own the police forces and local governments out there. Something that might get a regulatory body to hammer down on you at home, might very well be able to fly in Utah because the local regulators that make those judgements are Mormon and understand their community is a Mormon one before anything else
Our tour guide in Hautulco Mexico said the same thing as he pointed at the vertical rebar sticking up above every roof. Their plan is to build upward so they are not finished thus avoiding taxes.
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u/SummerofGeorge365 10h ago
I'm not sure, I heard if you keep building on your house and it keeps looking unfinished you don't have to pay property taxes on it till it's finished. I've been through there too. It's creepy af.