If "Corporations are people"......

[Uben]

...I WANT TO SEE THEIR FUCKING BIRTH CERTIFICATES!

[mindem]

1. Voter ID too.

I want to see a voter id card with a photo too. The repukes should go for that one - they sure do everywhere else.

[catbyte]

2. HEAR, HEAR!

[liberalmike27]

11. If They are People

Then they should pay taxes at people's tax rates. If they don't make much, they don't pay. If they make over 380,000, they'll be taxed at 35 percent. If they keep money in foreign lands to not pay taxes, just revoke their right to sell products in America, or add tariffs to collect their taxes, enough to make producing the product in America once again practical. If they hurt people they go on trial, if they act in a way that doesn't appear patriotic, allow them to be duly chastised. And put the same limits on their campaign contributions as people, allow 2600 for the primary, and 2600 for the general election, no more.

It really seems reasonable that if you are going to make these legal contract entities people, that you also force them to follow the same restrictions and laws that are imposed on people.

[tanyev]

3. ...why aren't they limited to $2500 per candidate?

[madokie]

6. I think the new super pac's lets them give unlimited amounts

Directly to the person, or ads for the person, is to me, one and the same.

I may be wrong on my first statement though and if I am I'm hoping someone will correct me. I really dislike being ignorant of something.

[madokie]

4. I want to see some of the sunsabiotches behind bars

if they're people. The muderfukers have made life rough on about 300 plus million of us and still counting

[patrice]

5. ... they're people twice: 1. corporate-people & 2. people-people nt

[madokie]

7. To jail twice then

[patrice]

9. You'd think that'd at least be FRAUD wouldn't you? . . . in a sane world, that is. nt

[pipi_k]

8. So it's not even possible

that he may have been speaking metaphorically?

[Scuba]

10. I thought he meant that corps were the people who owned them. This is legally wrong, but RW uses it

[pipi_k]

12. Well, and they're also the people who work for them

Sort of like a "family", which (IMO) is just a word until you associate it with the people who comprise it.

[KittyWampus]

14. Isn't "the family" a euphemism for the Mafia/organized crime?

[pipi_k]

16. It is, but...

people also use it in reference to their own relatives...

as in, "I'm going back East to visit the family".

In any case, it was just an example of how something can be something else without actually being it.

[Scuba]

15. Yeah, I worked for several orgs that tried that "family" psych. But families don't disown members.

[pipi_k]

18. The hell they don't

I got disowned by my family for years because I wouldn't stick up for my child molester brother in law

Families can be just as nasty as any corporation.

They can cut each other down, sabotage, hurt, maim and destroy, screw each other over, and kill.


In any case, my point isn't about families themselves. My point is...as I posted above...that metaphorically, corporations are people. And that, I think, is what Romney meant. I believe he's an intelligent man...just like John Kerry...who speaks in a manner that people can be use against him.

[valerief]

13. Where's their picture ID? nt

[woo me with science]

17. I plan to marry one, divorce the fucker,

and take all its money.

[toddwv]

19. No problem. I've gotta copy right here...

[Contrary1]

20. Would that not also mean that people are corporations?

And as a people, I should be entitled to the same tax breaks and exemptions.

[Raine]

21. GOOD point ... it should go both ways. nt

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