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timeforpeace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 11:41 AM
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Need talking point assistance: the rights of speech and association mean you don't lose your right
to speech when you associate. This seems to make sense. How does a corporation as the associated entity change all this?
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Jim Sagle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 11:44 AM
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1. A corporation has limited liabilty for its officers for acts that would otherwise be criminal.
That's a powerful advantage over any non-corporate assocation.

That advantage is then leveraged to accumulate money in the commercial arena - money that is supposed to go to expenses, salaries, taxes, and shareholders. To turn around and use that money to influence politics gives a corporation one hell of a head start on the rest of us.

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timeforpeace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 11:50 AM
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2. Thank you. Exactly what I had hoped for. Makes sense.
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-22-10 12:02 PM
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3. "YOU" don't.
Edited on Fri Jan-22-10 12:02 PM by sandnsea
No humans working at a corporation should lose any right. But for a corporation to be considered a person and then granted constitutional rights?? NO WAY.
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