POSNER, Chief Judge.
Ever since 1950, the unrelated business income of charitable organizations has been taxable, 26 U.S.C. § 511, the purpose being to remove the advantage that tax-exempt organizations enjoyed in competing with ordinary business firms. (For example, universities had been engaged in the manufacture of automobiles and chinaware and in the operation of theaters and oil wells.) United States v. American College of Physicians,
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