310+ & 71.1 billion dollars

if you live in the US,
the bel­ly of the world’s po­lice­man,
you live with over
310 tax ex­empt­ed re­li­gions—
that’s over 310 groups of
id­iots, who get to prac­tice their id­io­cy
with­out pay­ing tax­es—
it’s es­ti­mat­ed that the an­nu­al
amount
which is lost by NOT tax­ing these
id­iots,
is
$71.1 bil­lion
a
year.

think for a sec­ond
just what this coun­try could do with that
mon­ey.

think of the kids that could be ed­u­cat­ed
in schools that have bud­gets that do not
DE­CREASE ev­ery fuck­ing year,
think of the de­part­ments in these schools
that would not be CUT &
think of the teach­ers who would be
gain­ful­ly em­ployed & not TER­RI­FIED of
los­ing their god­damned jobs,
so that they could breathe for a mo­ment &
spend their time en­joy­ing the process of
ex­chang­ing in­for­ma­tion with the fu­ture
most bril­liant minds in the world.

do we need to go on about the fact that this
mon­ey could go on to help fund
UNI­VER­SAL health care for amer­i­cans &
in­stead of pro­vid­ing fur­ther venues for
ig­no­rance?

do we need to talk about the green en­er­gy
pro­grams that could be be­gun with this mon­ey
to save our species from fry­ing up like
crisp ba­con? how about the jobs that could
come from putting such pro­grams in­to mo­tion?
let it all bub­ble up in your head
while an­oth­er catholic priest gets dragged out
kick­ing & scream­ing
from be­hind the vat­i­can cur­tain
for mo­lest­ing a bunch of lit­tle boys.

let it all bub­ble up in your head
while an­oth­er abor­tion doc­tor gets shot or a clin­ic
gets blown up to smithereens.

let it all bub­ble up in your head
while an­oth­er self-made mes­si­ah
rapes his harem of young girls, forc­ing them to
pro­duce his holy spawn on what­ev­er ranch he
pleas­es, wher­ev­er he deems it ap­pro­pri­ate &
the next time stem cell re­search
can save your life or the life of some­one you
love,
make sure you re­mind your­self how valu­able
these or­ga­ni­za­tions are.