So here are my question -
Why do some people decry governmernt overreaching (think healthcare) but think business is ok when it overreaches (think home loan fail)?
Why do people protest against abortion and also oppose healthcare for pregnant women?
Why is abortion bad but capital punishment good?
Why is it ok to send death threats to congress people who vote to provide healthcare?
Why is it that a Christian militia group can plan to kill police and do other terrorist acts and nobody freaks out that they use the word Christian?
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
3/5 of a person in 10 seconds
Now that the Supreme Court has allowed corporations another right of personhood - free speech in the form of campaign donations - it got me thinking about similarities and differences of live persons and corporations.
It seems to me that corporations sometimes like being persons: "Senator, here's $50,000 since I can't tell you I favor dismantling the EPA." And sometimes they don't: corporations don't seem to die . Think of corporate law as healthcare for corporations - now there's a government run healthcare program even the right-wingers can get behind. But I digress.
Corporations can now do what people cannot now do. But in the past, people could do it but corporations couldn't. Guess what it is? Well, persons used to be able to own other persons (or 3/5 of a person for census purposes) but corporations couldn't buy other corporations. We came to our senses about slavery for real people but if a corporation is a person, isn't it slavery to buy another corporate person? I say, stop corporate slavery!
We have now stretched the 'person' part of a corportation to absurd lengths and it is time to end the crap. Corporations are not people and they should not be treated as such. There is no reason for it. There are plenty of good reasons for corporations but they don't need the person idea to work.
I'm sure there are many more problems with corporate law - the biggest is that corporations can grow beyond countries and individual country law. Maybe I'll rant more about that sometime.
p.s. Ten bonus points if you got the song reference in the title. And double them if you read this far.
It seems to me that corporations sometimes like being persons: "Senator, here's $50,000 since I can't tell you I favor dismantling the EPA." And sometimes they don't: corporations don't seem to die . Think of corporate law as healthcare for corporations - now there's a government run healthcare program even the right-wingers can get behind. But I digress.
Corporations can now do what people cannot now do. But in the past, people could do it but corporations couldn't. Guess what it is? Well, persons used to be able to own other persons (or 3/5 of a person for census purposes) but corporations couldn't buy other corporations. We came to our senses about slavery for real people but if a corporation is a person, isn't it slavery to buy another corporate person? I say, stop corporate slavery!
We have now stretched the 'person' part of a corportation to absurd lengths and it is time to end the crap. Corporations are not people and they should not be treated as such. There is no reason for it. There are plenty of good reasons for corporations but they don't need the person idea to work.
I'm sure there are many more problems with corporate law - the biggest is that corporations can grow beyond countries and individual country law. Maybe I'll rant more about that sometime.
p.s. Ten bonus points if you got the song reference in the title. And double them if you read this far.
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