Well elucidated! I believe that the citizens of United States through our constitution gave corporations the right to exist. We never did give them the right to be a person but Congress initiated that concept through the lobbying of our politicians by the corporations. We have now been made captive to the wishes of the corporation. This has to be reversed to fix the system!
Well elucidated! I believe that the citizens of United States through our constitution gave corporations the right to exist. We never did give them the right to be a person but Congress initiated that concept through the lobbying of our politicians by the corporations. We have now been made captive to the wishes of the corporation. This has to be reversed to fix the system!
"I believe that the citizens of United States through our constitution gave corporations the right to exist." - No one asked the citizens and never will. You may dream as much as you want about "fixing" and "reversing" - it always will remain just a dream and wishful thinking.
"corporate" should include unions and all non-profits...basically, only individual contributions are allowed
However - this then becomes a type of "taxation without representation", since these "non-person" entities pay taxes and are subject to laws but will be prevented from "voicing their opinion". Maybe that means we eliminate the corporate tax and replace it with a consumption tax. We could also replace the corporate employment tax with an individual based tax, assuming the corporate savings are transferred to the individual. I know, it's not an easy thing to figure out, but I believe we could find a way to circle that square.
Don't forget that corporations are owned by human stockholders. Nothing prevents them from contacting their elected representatives. The corruption (and abuse of individual stockholders) begins when corporations like CocaCola jump on to trending social movements and become lobbyists.
There are many ways to reduce corruption in the stock market, but as long as our representatives in DC are profiting from it, it will never happen. That's like waiting for the day that they vote for term limits.
Well elucidated! I believe that the citizens of United States through our constitution gave corporations the right to exist. We never did give them the right to be a person but Congress initiated that concept through the lobbying of our politicians by the corporations. We have now been made captive to the wishes of the corporation. This has to be reversed to fix the system!
"I believe that the citizens of United States through our constitution gave corporations the right to exist." - No one asked the citizens and never will. You may dream as much as you want about "fixing" and "reversing" - it always will remain just a dream and wishful thinking.
"corporate" should include unions and all non-profits...basically, only individual contributions are allowed
However - this then becomes a type of "taxation without representation", since these "non-person" entities pay taxes and are subject to laws but will be prevented from "voicing their opinion". Maybe that means we eliminate the corporate tax and replace it with a consumption tax. We could also replace the corporate employment tax with an individual based tax, assuming the corporate savings are transferred to the individual. I know, it's not an easy thing to figure out, but I believe we could find a way to circle that square.
Don't forget that corporations are owned by human stockholders. Nothing prevents them from contacting their elected representatives. The corruption (and abuse of individual stockholders) begins when corporations like CocaCola jump on to trending social movements and become lobbyists.
There are many ways to reduce corruption in the stock market, but as long as our representatives in DC are profiting from it, it will never happen. That's like waiting for the day that they vote for term limits.