inextricably tied

Practically all the spare money in the country consists of a mass of rent, interest, and profit, every penny of which is bound up with crime, drink, prostitution, disease, and all the evil fruits of poverty, as inextricably as with enterprise, wealth, commerical probity, and national prosperity. The notion that you can earmark certain coins as tainted is an unpractical individualist superstition.
- George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara