If Corporations Are People...

[MattShizzle]

If the Supreme Court of the US wants to say corporations are people they should be able to be sentenced as people are - if prison for that ammount of time all profits are confiscated by the government and if death the government takes over ownership with no compensation to the stockholders. Violating safety laws or such where a worker is injured is assault, if killed it's murder. Underpaying workers is robbery. Hiring "bean counters" who say it's cheaper to deal with lawsuits than fixing safety issues is a serious crime. Paying the lowest paid full time worker less than 1% what the CEO or such makes also results in a life sentence. And the executives who have a vote get the same sentence as the corporation if they voted the way it went. Not as good as getting rid of Capitalism period but would be way better than how things are now...

[eric922]

Corporations aren't so much people as they are Supermen. I mean they can clone themselves, they can never die, and they rarely have to pay taxes. Hey, I guess you can escape death and taxes.

[the Left™]

If you have ever seen the documentary called the Corporation it talks about how like blatant disregard for welfare of others, irrational self-interest, inability to think long-term etc etc all classify certain mental health illness criteria for the World Health Organization. THEY ARE PEOPLE RIGHT?:laugh:

[Revolution starts with U]

They also, first and foremost, should be forbidden from owning other corporations.. because they are people, and that is slavery. Like... I can't believe this isn't the first thing said about corporate personhood every time it is brought up.

[Che a chara]

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[eric922]

On the topic of Citizens United, legal philosopher Ronald Dworkin wrote a good article about it when it came down. I'm trying to find it, my law professor sent me the link, but I can't seem to find it in my email. Granted the laws of capitalist states are naturally rigged in the favor of the ruling class, but Dworkin is fairly decent at criticizing some of the worst excess of the current Supreme Court. I found it, here is the link:http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/may/13/decision-threatens-democracy/?pagination=false Here is a good excerpt where he talks about how the decision completely goes against precedent:

"The history of the Court’s decision is as extraordinary as its reception. At least since 1907, when Congress passed the Tillman Act at the request of President Theodore Roosevelt, it had been accepted by the nation and the Court that corporations, which are only fictitious persons created by law, do not have the same First Amendment rights to political activity as real people do. In 1990, in Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce,1 the Court firmly upheld that principle. In 2002, Congress passed the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) sponsored by Senators John McCain and Russell Feingold, which forbade corporations to engage in television electioneering for a period of thirty days before a primary for federal office and sixty days before an election. In 2003, in McConnell v. Federal Election Commission (FEC), the Court upheld the constitutionality of that prohibition.2"

[Ocean Seal]

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Its the only death penalty I'll support.

[DinodudeEpic]

Corporations aren't so much people as they are Supermen. I mean they can clone themselves, they can never die, and they rarely have to pay taxes. Hey, I guess you can escape death and taxes.

THEY ARE THE UBERMENSCH! Unrestrained by morals! All powerful and mighty.

Are they the superman? Ya! Super aryan supermen. Super duper superman!


(Get the joke?)

[rylasasin]

Are they the superman? Ya! Super aryan supermen. Super duper superman!


(Get the joke?)

Me heil! me heil! right in der furher's face!

that cartoon cracked me up. So did the song.