An interesting point and one worth consideration, no need for another Civil War, this time we just set them free, stop bailing them out etc. What do you think? Freedom, freedom, freedom....
"Now, if it is assumed that corporations are persons and are thus entitled to 1st Amendment rights (at least in the United States) it would certainly seem to follow that they are entitled to all the rights of persons. Or, at the very least, the other constitutional rights.
Corporations can, of course, be owned. In fact, common stock is bought and sold as a matter of routine business and provides an ownership share in a corporation. Since corporations are people, this means that people are being allowed to legally own other people. Owning another person is, of course, slavery. While slavery was legal at one time in the United States, the 13th amendment is rather clear on this matter..."
Talking Philosophy | Liberate the Corporations?
"Candidates appealed to voters mostly by appealing to their ethnic and social identities, waving the bloody shirt to remind their audiences of the treasonable crimes the other side had committed during the bitter culture wars of the Sixtiesthe 1860s, that is. No matter who won, the local and federal governments were understoodwith good reasonto be the wholly owned creatures of corporate entities whose enormous wealth dwarfed that of the governments themselves. When offices changed hands, the new group of political professionals and their sponsors were the only people likely to benefit. Any and all appeals to the court system were useless. Just thirty years after it had supported a federal income tax to fund the Civil War, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the very practice unconstitutional, an assault upon capital and the start of a war of the poor against the rich. In 1886, the Court wielded the Fourteenth Amendment, which guaranteed the rights of freed slaves, as a shield against the regulation of big business, ruling that corporations were now somehow the same as people." the depository: The Vanishing Liberal by Kevin Baker
"Now, if it is assumed that corporations are persons and are thus entitled to 1st Amendment rights (at least in the United States) it would certainly seem to follow that they are entitled to all the rights of persons. Or, at the very least, the other constitutional rights.
Corporations can, of course, be owned. In fact, common stock is bought and sold as a matter of routine business and provides an ownership share in a corporation. Since corporations are people, this means that people are being allowed to legally own other people. Owning another person is, of course, slavery. While slavery was legal at one time in the United States, the 13th amendment is rather clear on this matter..."
Talking Philosophy | Liberate the Corporations?
"Candidates appealed to voters mostly by appealing to their ethnic and social identities, waving the bloody shirt to remind their audiences of the treasonable crimes the other side had committed during the bitter culture wars of the Sixtiesthe 1860s, that is. No matter who won, the local and federal governments were understoodwith good reasonto be the wholly owned creatures of corporate entities whose enormous wealth dwarfed that of the governments themselves. When offices changed hands, the new group of political professionals and their sponsors were the only people likely to benefit. Any and all appeals to the court system were useless. Just thirty years after it had supported a federal income tax to fund the Civil War, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the very practice unconstitutional, an assault upon capital and the start of a war of the poor against the rich. In 1886, the Court wielded the Fourteenth Amendment, which guaranteed the rights of freed slaves, as a shield against the regulation of big business, ruling that corporations were now somehow the same as people." the depository: The Vanishing Liberal by Kevin Baker
