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It’s really hard to find examples of pernicious institutions set up this way.

The Prohibition Party is still around because of a trust that funds them indefinitely.

But nobody cares about the Prohibition Party.

Some ecclesiastical organizations have this sort of perpetual funding. Sometimes via taxes, and sometimes investments.

But it doesn’t make the organizations insanely powerful. The Catholic Church in Germany is hardly a political player.

Trinity Church in New York has a billion dollar endowment. They’re not big players in the US religious landscape.

Real power requires more than money.

It seems what it does is ensures some person 150 years from now will have a cushy job with little power or responsibility, but lots of cash.



The original parent organization to modern Planned Parenthood had some pretty abhorrent for the modern times views, and there is evidence to suggest it still has similar aims disguised in a broader social agenda.




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