Chapter Sixty - Religious Exemption
Chapter Sixty - Religious Exemption
"While it isn't the opinion of this author that removing governmental religious exemptions was one of the leading contributors to the fall of Old America, one must admit that the changes to the laws that gave religious organisations the ability to not pay taxes did coincide with other massive changes in the cultural and economic state of the Western world.
However, I posit that the Corporate Tax Exemption--the laws allowing sufficiently large corporate entities to avoid taxation outright--was a far greater harbinger of the end of the Old American way."
--Doctor C. Thumbs thesis on the Fall of Old America, 2046
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"Okay, can everyone hear me?" I asked.
"Mhm!" Grasshopper said.
"You woke me up for this," Gomorrah replied.
"Ah, yes?" came Tanket.