(November 20, 2014 at 4:02 pm)Heywood Wrote: Objects don't pay taxes....people pay taxes. Corporations pay taxes because they are considered persons for purposes of law.....why? Because corporations are comprised of people and people do not lose their constitutional rights or their obligation to pay taxes simply because they decide to pool their resources and do business as a corporation.
This is dishonest. People don't lose any rights because they are associated with a corporation. They are free to vote and to donate their own personal finances towards anything they want, just like you or I. What you are doing is suggesting that, in addition to those rights we all share, corporate executives and shareholders should have the additional special right to use money that is not theirs, personally, to make their own personal political influence stronger than yours or mine. You are suggesting that corporate executives and shareholders deserve more of a say in politics than the average voter, who cannot afford to do such things.
As I said previously, if you want to treat money as if it was speech, then you might as well drop the pretense and let everybody buy as many votes as they can afford, because that is the practical result of what you're advocating.
