Washington DC. Feb 19 2082
In a surprise ruling today, the Supreme Court decided that the First_Global_Bank_of_Christ's_Redemption.com could continue to function despite the Lewinsky administration's contention that the  church/bank/commune constitutes a threat to national security.  Writing for the majority, Chief Justice Karim Deane said "The legal and economic framework on which our country was built has always embraced free economic activity and innovation, and finding novel ways to avoid taxation is itself nothing new. We find their books are in order, and they have broken no law.  If a group of business persons may pool their interests and resources, write themselves a charter, incorporate, and immediately reap the benefits of corporate-friendly tax law, then why cannot the congregation of a Church do the same thing? Of course they can.  And if they wish to donate all their worldly posessions to the Church, which is a fully accredited and audited charitable organization, then they are free to do so.  If the Church then charitably returns that wealth to its members in the form of goods, services, cash, or even its own private script, then how can that be illegal? Giving wealth back to the community is exactly what we expect charitable institutions to do.  The Court understands the Administration's position, that having millions of tax payers disappear off the roles, their wealth hidden under church/corporate umberellas could be destablizing to the government, but it is the Court's position that if the government wrote equitable tax laws in the first place, rather than leaving the corporate sector virtually untaxed, then they would not be in the mess they are in today.  If the government collapses into anarchy, then that is its own affair. It should not come to the Court, expecting, nay demanding, that the court bail it out yet again.  We are not the Legislature. We cannot rewrite the laws simply because the commoners have found their way into the loophole jar.  It's your <explitive> system. So fix it. I'm going fishin'."

the Plan:

1: Members donate all assets to Church, take tax write off.
2: Church forms a corporation to cover banking, investment, and running of stores to meet all basic needs of the people, and other activities it cannot legally do as a church.
3: Members own stock in corporation.  Corporation owns the assets (all property). Corporation aims to meet all basic needs of members using combined buying power for things that the community cannot produce itself.  Actual work is organized using aome form of direct democracy.  These meetings would also serve as stock-holder meetings for the corporation.
4: Corporation has a co-op store to meet these needs, open to public, takes both church script and mundane cash.
5: Many members work for the corporation, meeting the basic needs of the community and producing some extra goods and services for "export" outside the corporation.
6. Any profit produced is "donated" to the church, which then returns it to the community as some charitable project, another write-off.
7. A small team of tax accountants and other suits to continually shift the legal position of all these parts as necessary to avoid all taxes and interest.