everyone wins cause i can tell people that my customers donated the money (and therefore, it's tax deductible for them), it's nontaxable for me, they get their stuff, my expenses are tax deductible, i can pay my employees at a steep discount (or i can convince them that the FSM told me they need to volunteer their valuable engineering talents), and then invest a bunch of money in the stock market (probably also at a much lower taxing bracket) so when the economy crumbles again, I can ride it out on fake fedgov printed money that i used to purchase securities that don't exist or the values of which are outright lies. commence operation: #1 spend my entire net worth on building as big and gawky statue as possible to draw worshippers in, write it off as marketing expense. #2 justify spending that money by saying "with the amount of income, i mean, the number of souls we save, in the long term we will better serve god's will". #3 molest my altar boys. #4 prophet!!!! this is an infallible business plan. going to PNC so i can get in on some of that fed gov moneyz asap and earn billions so i can be pope next.