Message from mburditt

[Anonymous]

I found the information on the Shoen quite interesting. A system put in place through a Buddhist temple that would help them avoid paying taxes. Of course we can see this today with different schemes businesses and organizations concoct in order to also avoid paying taxes. I have also seen individuals actually claiming their own homes as churches in order to avoid paying as well; I would love to see statistics on this if they were available. Once people start learning there is a loophole that will save them money, more and more people will start doing it, and as it seems this is what helped weaken Japan's central government at that time. Wow, history has so many lessons, will we learn? I am not a big fan of paying taxes, but claiming your own home as a church seems a bit of a stretch.