I am in favor of the death penalty for certain acivities .......

[Stinky The Clown]

.... such as bad corporate citizenship, for corporate cheating, for undue corporate influence, for corporate corruption of our government .....

And on .....

And on .....

Corporations have personhood only by way of government fiat. I am very much in favor of a corporate death penalty for those corporate persons who act counter to the common good.

(I am also a capitalist and see corporations as a reasonable form of business.)

[annabanana]

1. They have "personhood" priviledges....

They do NOT have "personhood" liabilities & responsibilities.

[Selatius]

2. If we're going to have death penalties for humans, I insist we should have them for corporations.

If a corporation is convicted of various crimes that would likely get a human being the death penalty, then the corporation's death penalty will be that the government revokes its charter and dissolves its assets, to be distributed to the creditors who seek repayment and to the victims, if any, who want compensation.

[leftofthedial]

3. voting repuke

listening to RW hate radio

etc.

[backscatter712]

4. Bring back the corporate death penalty!

If a company commits enough crimes, like predatory business practices, destruction of the environment, sale of products that kill people, etc. then yes, the penalty should be the "corporate death penalty."

In other words, all assets of the company are seized and auctioned, all offices are permanently closed, the company ceases to exist. Generally, if the crimes are serious enough to do this, then the crimes are serious enough to pierce the corporate veil and pursue civil and criminal charges against the president and board members.

[Stinky The Clown]

5. I was actually thinking of lower thresholds ......

..... I know this is inarticulate and impossible to enact, so consider my example a parable ..........

When a corporation gets too big it needs to be killed. Often, simply by virtue of size and market domination, a corporation is bad for the common good.

There are sooooo many reasons not to do that and I agree with most of them. But that's the idea.

Think about this, too ....... NewsCorp is bad for the common good because they skew 'news' stifle opposing views and have pretty much rendered the Fourth Estate the Fourth Branch Of BushCoGovernment. I can support their death penalty. And never even blink.

[iamahaingttta]

6. Yes.

Yes indeed!

[onenote]

7. I'm against it in all circumstances

Its applied unevenly, unfairly, and irrationally.

How do you propose to avoid those problems if you start meting out the death penalty to "corporate persons"

(And please clarify - are you suggesting that the death penalty be administered to corporations -- ie the corporation be dissolved. Or to individuals who run/work for corporations. I'm guessing you mean the former, in which case my question is what do you do to protect the shareholders and employees of the company that gets dissolved)

[Stinky The Clown]

9. As a broad concept ......

... order the dissolution of the offending corporation. Have a court appointed receivership established to profitably dispose of the assets, and put the shareholders first in line for sale proceeds.

I have no further details to share. I'm just discussing the broad concept of a corporate death penalty.

[warren pease]

8. Good thread on this subject...

If you haven't already seen it, you might want to look through it here:

http://tinyurl.com/38y9pw


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