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If the government is so broke maybe they need to eliminate non-profits. Then nobody can hide who is buying influence. As an example - it would be nice to know who bought the current POTUS' election. That was close to $1B in untraced (above and beyond what the campaign reported) funds that evaded scrutiny/taxes. Not to mention what a great source of revenue it would provide. I've always favored taxing churches - it worked well enough for Henry VIII.
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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