Why Should Corps That Move Offshore Be Allowed To Give $$ To Political Candidates?

[Blackhatjack]

We supposedly do not allow foreign governments to make direct contributions to campaigns of political candidates in this country.

But what if the SCOTUS takes the wraps off corporations and allows them to make campaign contributions under the pretense of exercising their 1st Amendment rights?

Corporations are legally created entities which often move their principal places of business to offshore locations to AVOID PAYING US TAXES.

IF the SCOTUS comes down in favor of the corporations in this suit, we will see a remarkable shift in acknowledging that corporations indeed are 'persons' with higher standing that the real citizens who inhabit this country.

[abelenkpe2]

1. Why should corps be allowed to offshore?

I mean really people. If we made that illegal what do you think would happen? Every business here close down and leave the country because they aren't allowed to make obscene profits anymore? Good riddance. Those that did leave would be replaced by a hundred thousand eager new businesses and corporate leaders happy to make more money than most but not quite as much as the robber barons currently in control.
Do CEOs honestly think the world would stop and we'd all sit around unable to go on without them? They are truly the easiest people in the universe to replace.

[mod mom]

2. WHY? because a illegitimately placed pResident stacked the SCOTUS w corporatists!

[benddem]

3. good question! n/t

[ixion]

4. not being citizens, corporations shouldn't be allowed to donate. Period.

[Blackhatjack]

5. Exactly! Corporations are a legal creation, not real people, and therefore 1st Amend Does NOT Apply

I find the rearguing of the case before the SCOTUS with direction to the counsel to specifically brief a case which addresses this point to be very troubling.

[bemildred]

6. 100% public funding of all elections is the only sensible answer.

Even with that, you are still going to have lots of corruption, but at least it's a start.