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Musicmystery -> RE: Are Corporations "people"? (6/26/2012 4:30:47 PM)
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ORIGINAL: joether
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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery
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Corporations is one of those things the founding fathers warned us about, and damned if they were not visionary in many ways.
Corporations were well established long before that.
Which is why the Founding Fathers warned against the concept! Just like how they warned organized religions were bad to a free nation if they were to press for a theocracy. The Founding Fathers did not like the nobility (in any form, religious, corporate, royality) as 'The People' were often seen as lesser not equal under the law. And that if such organizations of people were allowed power in the USA, they would quickly change things into a two tier system of laws: 1) Theirs and 2) Everyone Else's. Their laws would be much less then everyone else's in just about every detail; so as to remain in power irrelevant of what 'The People' demand.
And we have such an organization right now, trying through multiple sources to secure the 'noblity' of "religion, corporate, and 'royality": The Republican Party.
That's silly.
There already WERE corporations. It's not something that was GOING to potentially happen--we were there.
In fact, it was when George gave away a tea monopoly that the OTHER competing businesses protested--nothing whatever to do with the tax excuse (beyond the required tax stamp on the tea).
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