Comments about ‘FLDS could lose 150 homes to unpaid taxes’

I feel sorry for these people, but if they lose their property to taxes, they might actually have a chance to get out of that place. The women and children might actually have a chance at real lives. I certainly hope so.

They are leading "real lives" just a life you would not have chosen, which is their right. They likely would find your "real life" vulgar.

people who let this felonious sect florish for all these years...giving them law enforcement officers and the right to vote all the while ...real american!!

don't feel sorry for these people, welfare abuse that the tax payers pay for, child abuse! If we all have to pay our taxes, why are they any different than any other group. and I live where they shop and do buissness they are very rude and demanding at retail stores. I say that they should do what every one else has to do. no exceptions

I agree with Cats and swells. These people are living a lie and they shouldn't get any special privileges because they hide behind so called religion.

Shurtleff is sure to let the Utah side of this slide. He and his polygamy czar Paul Murphy will do anything to protect these people from real danger of paying taxes. When Shurtleff is senator and Murphy moves up to attorney general, he will push for legalization of polygamy.

It wasn't Shurtleff who didn't pay the taxes. It wasn't Shurtleff who appointed a trustee. It wasn't Shurtleff who enforced the terms of court orders. Shurtleff's social work has done more good for the fine people of Hildale that any other state agency. Paul Murphy has been the sole voice of compassion and reason. There has never been a better protector for the downtrodden. The Mormon Pioneers would have wanted Shurtleff and Brother Murphy to protect them from all of the government's abuses. Shurtleff has been a wise steward of tax funds, disbursing them to help the women of Short Creek get the social services and health care that they need because other government agencies won't help. Shurtleff isn't the one prosecuting Uncle Warren, that is the County. No one has protected the community from the other government abusers like Mark Shurtleff and Paul Murphy. They are the truest of civil libertarians. When is the last time that Governor Huntsman met with Brother Jessop? Or any other state official? Get the facts before criticizing two great men who put their money where their mouths are!

When the FLDS trust held title to the land, the taxes were paid--is that what the article said? But when the court appointed trustee took over, the taxes weren't paid? What is his responsibility in all this?

@Let's get this straight: the article makes it clear that the people who live in Colorado City are refusing to work with the trustee. So it is the residents' fault. After all, the court would never have appointed a trustee in the first place if the residents there had managed their trust in a proper manner.

Whether or not polygamy is legal has nothing to do with the fiduciary duty that the original trustees of the trust had. They failed to live up to their fiduciary duties. Simple as that.