magical gore

They knew what I was looking for right off the bat xD

According to the Abstract for an article titled "Addressing Hate: Georgia, the IRS, and the Ku Klux Klan," written by Samuel D. Brunson, Loyola University Chicago School of Law (because I cannot tell if I can actually read the article), the KKK officially suspended its operations in 1944. And then ended in its entirety two years later. "In 1944 the Bureau of Internal Revenue assessed a $685,305 tax on the Klan and, when the Klan did not pay, filed a lien." This was because the Klan had made itself a Georgia Fraternal Organization in 1916, "...following a model of the Masons and other fraternal organizations." Evidently, they also claimed to be a "...tax-exempt fraternal beneficiary society under the new federal income tax." So they basically had legal rights, benefits, and respect within the community in part due to this legal status. But because they couldn't pay up, they violated their corporate charter and tax-exempt fraternal beneficiary terms. This left the state of Georgia no choice but to revoke the Corporate Charter. Now, obviously, this wouldn't be enough to cause the Klan to cease to exist, but it certainly didn't help. (Source: Samuel D. Brunson, Addressing Hate: Georgia, the IRS, and the Ku Klux Klan, 41 VA. TAX REV. 45 (2021).

Now, further digging has made it evident that other White Supremacist groups and similar reprehensible organizations of the modern United States enjoy tax benefits, public subsidies, the legal status of being a charity, and so on. That's not something that makes me jump with joy. And it shouldn't be allowed. But, you know, here we are.

Dazed while trying to piece together the series of bizarre yet deeply vivid images, the entire nation reportedly awoke Monday from a strange dream in which it had been watching soccer. “I wasn’t just willingly viewing it, I actually cared who won, and I was tuning in right here in the United States instead of watching it in Europe or someplace like that,” said 27-year-old Philadelphia resident Erika Sloan, one of the 340 million bewildered Americans who were kneading their foreheads in an attempt to recall the almost lifelike scenes in which they knew when Cape Verde was playing and had an opinion on whether a player was offside.