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Re: If Corporations are people...
Old 01-25-2012, 08:02 PM   #6
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While i know you are joking, a corporation is treated like a person under the tax code. Legally, they are an organization, not a person. To go along with your line of thought, though, those that work for and invest in a corporation are people and share all of the same laws. In that sense, corporations are indeed people, and if a corporation acts poorly, the effort should be to attack those who made the decisions/broke the laws and not the institution itself.
Hasn't this definition been stretched a little bit though? Considering that corporations under "freedom of speech" construed as freedom to give campaign donations has allowed corporations' donations to be indistinguishable from those given by persons?

note***- i'm asking the above question based on an article I read about a year ago, so sorry if thats not quite how it works.
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