Posted by:
Alpiner
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Date: April 09, 2014 10:02AM
To posters upstream, the Utah economy would be fine without the church. Most of the economy is tied up in manufacturing, information technologies, and tourism unrelated to Mormonism (skiing, Zion's, Arches, Moab, etc.). Despite sitting in the middle of Utah County, my day-to-day work never touches on the church in anything but a tangential fashion.
It's not like Adobe, Novell, and others will just pack their bags and leave when the church goes. As another poster argued, it may be a net economic benefit to see the church go as its employees move to more productive sectors of the economy. Due to its outsourcing and recent layoffs, the church doesn't even get counted as one of the big employers in the state. Part of that's because various child operations (like BYU) aren't counted as part of the monolithic 'church,' but the COB has been shrinking lately.
https://jobs.utah.gov/wi/pubs/em/annualreport/07annual/lrgstemp.pdf