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TIL The US could make 71 Billion a year just by taxing churches

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awwNb TIL NBA player Allen Iverson signed a lifetime endorsement contract with Reebok in 2001 that would pay him $800,000 a year until he reaches age 55 to where he would then receive a final lump sum payment of $32,000,000.
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