What are "corporations" if not people?

[GreenBean]

It's True: Corporations Are People
What else could they be?
Buildings don't hire people.
Buildings don't design cars that run on electricity or discover drug therapies to defeat cancer.

Elizabeth Warren introduced President Obama at a big fundraiser in Boston:
"Mitt Romney tells us, in his own words, he believes corporations are people. No, Mitt, corporations are NOT people," she pronounced. "People have hearts. They have kids. They get jobs. They get sick. They love and they cry and they dance. They live and they die. Learn the difference." The audience went wild.
Jack Welch and Suzy Welch: It's True—Corporations Are People - WSJ.com

Ms. Warren.. who makes corporate decisions? Computers? Buildings? Oil wells?
Seriously .. what else but "people" make those decisions? NOT corporations!

Corporation n. an organization formed with state governmental approval to act as an artificial person to carry on business (or other activities), which can sue or be sued.... corporation legal definition of corporation

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Corporations are a group of investors who risk their own capital to make a profit on that investment. When I vote for a candidate, I invest my vote hoping for a return on that investment.

What?

FYI: "Justice Stevens argued that corporations are not members of society and that there are compelling governmental interests to curb corporations' ability to spend money during local and national elections." Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission The Oyez Project at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

It's True: Corporations Are People
What else could they be?
Buildings don't hire people.
Buildings don't design cars that run on electricity or discover drug therapies to defeat cancer.

Elizabeth Warren introduced President Obama at a big fundraiser in Boston:
"Mitt Romney tells us, in his own words, he believes corporations are people. No, Mitt, corporations are NOT people," she pronounced. "People have hearts. They have kids. They get jobs. They get sick. They love and they cry and they dance. They live and they die. Learn the difference." The audience went wild.
Jack Welch and Suzy Welch: It's True—Corporations Are People - WSJ.com

Ms. Warren.. who makes corporate decisions? Computers? Buildings? Oil wells?
Seriously .. what else but "people" make those decisions? NOT corporations!

Corporation n. an organization formed with state governmental approval to act as an artificial person to carry on business (or other activities), which can sue or be sued.... corporation legal definition of corporation

You can sue a corporation in court, no?

FYI: "The majority maintained that political speech is indispensable to a democracy, which is no less true because the speech comes from a corporation." Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission The Oyez Project at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

It's True: Corporations Are People
What else could they be?
Buildings don't hire people.
Buildings don't design cars that run on electricity or discover drug therapies to defeat cancer.

Elizabeth Warren introduced President Obama at a big fundraiser in Boston:
"Mitt Romney tells us, in his own words, he believes corporations are people. No, Mitt, corporations are NOT people," she pronounced. "People have hearts. They have kids. They get jobs. They get sick. They love and they cry and they dance. They live and they die. Learn the difference." The audience went wild.
Jack Welch and Suzy Welch: It's True—Corporations Are People - WSJ.com

Ms. Warren.. who makes corporate decisions? Computers? Buildings? Oil wells?
Seriously .. what else but "people" make those decisions? NOT corporations!

Corporation n. an organization formed with state governmental approval to act as an artificial person to carry on business (or other activities), which can sue or be sued.... corporation legal definition of corporation

You can sue a corporation in court, no? Can corporations be held criminally liable?

FYI: "The majority maintained that political speech is indispensable to a democracy, which is no less true because the speech comes from a corporation." Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission The Oyez Project at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law

 

[GreenBean]

It's True: Corporations Are People
What else could they be?
Buildings don't hire people.
Buildings don't design cars that run on electricity or discover drug therapies to defeat cancer.

Elizabeth Warren introduced President Obama at a big fundraiser in Boston:
"Mitt Romney tells us, in his own words, he believes corporations are people. No, Mitt, corporations are NOT people," she pronounced. "People have hearts. They have kids. They get jobs. They get sick. They love and they cry and they dance. They live and they die. Learn the difference." The audience went wild.
Jack Welch and Suzy Welch: It's True—Corporations Are People - WSJ.com

Ms. Warren.. who makes corporate decisions? Computers? Buildings? Oil wells?
Seriously .. what else but "people" make those decisions? NOT corporations!

Corporation n. an organization formed with state governmental approval to act as an artificial person to carry on business (or other activities), which can sue or be sued.... corporation legal definition of corporation

You can sue a corporation in court, no?

FYI: "The majority maintained that political speech is indispensable to a democracy, which is no less true because the speech comes from a corporation." Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission The Oyez Project at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law

Dante - the definition I gave you was dictionary.com if you don't like it argue with them. It acts as an "artficial person" not a real person and only acts as a person for the purpose of conducting commerce.
Can a corporation vote - NO
Can they buy votes ? ...Perhaps

And yes - you can sue a Corporation

corporation legal definition of corporation

 

[candycorn]

I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one of them.

 

[Silhouette]

A "person" cannot be a US citizen without either being born here or being naturalized. Many corporations currently enjoying "personhood" are owned in majority [even minority won't do] by foreign citizens who have not sworn the Oath to this country. Several "US citizens" are controlled by a foreign prince, no less. An islamic one from a country with financial ties to Al Qaida.

...oh and I forgot to add...you don't hear much about this islamic prince because a lot of the corporations he owns controlling stock in are American media. And hence, other laws banning foreigners from owning media are broken. He uses proxies when he has to.

And hence the unconstitutionality of Citizen's United. We cannot have foreign born princes contributing HUGE influence in US internal domestic affairs.

 

[Silhouette]

I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one of them.

Sweet.

 

[bripat9643]

No actually the decision was strictly within the grounds of 1st Amendment protections.

If you have something from the decision demonstrating otherwise I would read and appreciate it.

Citizens United = I can incorporate and produce any movie I want.

I support that like any other 1st Protection.

you fucking moron. the case was not about the right to produce a movie.

gawd, you're a poster child for assisted suicide

No it was. All the name calling and insults in the world wont change that.

People are not limited in political expression by virtue of their collective assembly into a corporate body. The movie was that political expression. The cruxt the limitation thereof. Prior, if you were a corporation and you wrote a song and broadcast it stating your views about a candidate within allotted the time frame it was illegal. The SCOTUS 5-4 vote affirmed that right by deeming that portion of the election law unconstitutional.

then they can do it woth their own money and not with their corporate coffers.

its stop NO speech to not let them use the corporate coffers to speak

If the shareholders want the corporation to take position 'X' on a certain issue, why shouldn't the corporation use its coffers to promote its position? What if the corporation was formed specifically to educate the public about the issue?

 

[konradv]

It's funny how many of the same people that tell us we should be following the "intent" of the Founders completely ignore their feelings on corporations.

To say that the founding fathers supported corporations is very absurd. Its quite the opposite in fact. Corporations like the East India Trading Company were despised by the founding fathers and they were just one reason why they chose to revolt against England. Corporations represented the moneyed interests much like they do today and they often wielded political power, sometimes to the point of governing a colony all by themselves like the Massachusetts Bay Company did.

Addicting Info 8211 What The Founding Fathers Thought About Corporations

 

[OnePercenter]

It's True: Corporations Are People
What else could they be?
Buildings don't hire people.
Buildings don't design cars that run on electricity or discover drug therapies to defeat cancer.

Elizabeth Warren introduced President Obama at a big fundraiser in Boston:
"Mitt Romney tells us, in his own words, he believes corporations are people. No, Mitt, corporations are NOT people," she pronounced. "People have hearts. They have kids. They get jobs. They get sick. They love and they cry and they dance. They live and they die. Learn the difference." The audience went wild.
Jack Welch and Suzy Welch: It's True—Corporations Are People - WSJ.com

Ms. Warren.. who makes corporate decisions? Computers? Buildings? Oil wells?
Seriously .. what else but "people" make those decisions? NOT corporations!

A corporation is an IRS rule. Nothing else.