Publicly financed elections.

[Heywood]

Money is speech so wanting less of it in a campaign is equivalent to wanting less speech in a campaign. I don't think we want less speech in a campaign. What we want is to equalize the amount of speech. A very progressive consumption tax would do just that coupled with making campaign contributions by corporations and people non tax deductible would begin to do that.

and corporations are human beings...I got your point of view loud and clear. Totally disagree with you but at least we know who you get your marching orders from

Corporations are not human beings....nobody thinks they are. However, corporations are treated as persons under the law. Corporation have many of the same rights as people because they are comprised of people. People do not lose their constitutional rights just because they come together and pool their resources to do business.

Suppose Brian37 and Minimalist start a janitorial company which takes on a corporate form. Just because those two wish to do business as a corporation does not allow the police to seize their corporate truck and sell it without due process. If corporations were not considered persons for the purpose of law....the police could do exactly that.