Grayson Passes Corporate Death Penality Law

[Minimalist]

Aren't corporations people now?

Only for rights. Not responsibilities. The republibertarianeo-conazis have written the best of both worlds into the laws they bribed congress to pass.

[Creed of Heresy]

And now Congress is passing legislation that make those bribes lose their meaning. Fuck yes it feels good. Warren for president and Grayson for Vice President in 2016, please!

[CapnAwesome]

This law is well-intentioned by ultimately meaningless. The whole system of government handing out private contracts to corporations that wouldn't even exist otherwise is corrupt. Every one of these corporations are breaking the law in one way or another. So what if the government dissolves one in favor of another one? Unless the whole system around them is over thrown it means exactly fuck-all.

[LastPoet]

Corporation (noun) - An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Hmmm yeah...

[FlyingNarwhal]

Yeah Grayson seems like one of the few good politicians out there, but I think the move is ultimately pointless. We are completely able to prosecute bank executives under the law, but we don't because they have bought the system. I'd rather see him get a bill through on campaign reform, and attack the problem at the root. This just seems to be a more cosmetic fix than a real one.

[Creed of Heresy]

Well in politics it always works that the politicians have to focus on the cosmetic shit first THEN they can work their way down [civil liberties have always shown this]. It's ass-backwards and inefficient but the only way to get anything done is the slow method because you try to bull through the House and Senate, you just end up getting dragged into political tar pits and you don't even get the basic shit done. It's a first step, let's see if he can keep up the momentum.

[FlyingNarwhal]

Yeah, I'm just pretty pessimistic about our current political system and both the parties.

[Minimalist]

We are completely able to prosecute bank executives under the law, but we don't because they have bought the system.

Don't you know that's called "the invisible hand of the market?"