Shan Lanen: No, they don`t even have mouths and have the talk with money.
Davina David: might want to look up the definition and base of the word "corporation"...I know it's a lot more fun for some people to think of them as giant, unthinking machines so that it fits their comic book notions of the world....but just like government "by the people"...recognizing that corporations are large groups of people helps to remind everyone where the true accountability rests...oops.....there's that dreaded word again!...Show more
Luther Plagmann: @isurvive... LOL
Clementina Collelo: Give me a good explanation.
Kris Otuafi: I don't care as long as we apply the laws that apply to people to the corporations.Death as a result of a corporation's action? Then the executives needs to be tried for murder or manslaughter.
Jerrod Guilfoil: NO! you idiot, they are Sesame street puppets with a weekly allowance
Sharron Salin: First ask what a Corporation i! s,..not that most here would be anywhere Honest.More Propaganda.The Idea that Shareholders have any rights is a Fallacy...The only control people have over corporations is when they .."Boycott their Product."..(and that's not shareholders).
Darren Heling: A corporation is an "entity", a "person" if you will in the eyes of the law. It is a "person" that can be sued (the whole point of incorporation is to protect the actual people who own it).The corporate person's lifeblood is money and its blood pressure is measured by its cash flow. If you want a detailed explanation of how corporate entities operate, take a class in microeconomics at your local college or university.
Norris Rosener: yes
Jinny Dronen: Corporations have been treated as a "person" under the law since Roman times
Stanton Valdivia: Well, they are funded and sustained by people. Consumers and investors are people. Employees and management are people.
Luke Kosch: What he meant ! is that they are made up of people. So yes, they are.Without p! eople, a corporation can't work.
Weldon Totaro: in the early 19th century, corporations where very limited in that they had a specific charter from the Government and that charter stated what they where in business to be doing and they focused on that bit. Corporations could not buy & sell other corporations & could not changed the nature of their charter without Government approval.Things have changed .... There is truly a monster on the loose!...Show more
Corrinne Ruozzo: Well, Romney's crazy answer was double talk. Yes corporations are made up of people but they are not entitled to freedom of speech guaranteed to individuals since they are a corporate entity, a business, and are engaged in commerce or trade for profit.Supreme Court thinks so, so who am I to argue?
Miguel Densley: Yes they are. Corporations are groups of people.
Danyell Rowback: No, I know that they are not because I am a rational human being. Corporate "personhood" is a legal fic! tion, created to enable corporations to perform certain legal actions. Carrying the concept further than that is just plain shilling for the large corporate interests.Edit: For instance, I have incorporated a business. It is not a person. I created the business and incorporated it for certain purposes, mostly relating to profits and taxation. I am a real person but the business is not. The failure by some to make that distinction is puzzling. I can close the business tomorrow if I so desire without being accused of murder....Show more
Rhett Kaines: Yes, because people form a corporation.
Voncile Slaubaugh: BY LAW THEY ARE ARTIFICIAL PERSONS
Dee Depung: Well obviously, I mean what else would they be? animals? machines?
Lia Argall: Corporations are people who own stock so yes.
Darwin Ecton: If corporations are people because they are made up out of people.....If a group of people are in train.....Will a train be considered people?
Viole! tte Vanek: The Supreme Court has ruled that corporations are people und! er the law. So just like in the case of abortion, the Court has spoken. It would take a constitutional amendment or a reversal of the Court's opinion to change it.
Jeff Frizzell: How about you tell us how a corporation gets started and runs its self and makes decisions without people.
Indira Wassell: Corporations are business entities, owned by people, worked for by people, and providing products and services to people. However, I doubt the founding fathers meant them to have the rights of individuals. And I think they would be appalled at the level of corporate political power.Any group of people can come together in support of political goals, but since corporations cannot possible speak for all of the individuals involved in that business entity, they should not have any political power beyond forming a voluntary PAC with the same restrictions as other PACS....Show more
Jackson Esmiol: HELL NO!
Claire Billegas: I've given this some thought.I thi! nk we are biching about this from the wrong angle.Whatever wording in McCain/Feingold that was ruled illegal because it deprived corporations of their right to free speech should have applied to a rich single individual also, in the first place.They simply need to tweak the language in the bill....Show more
Silvia Stclair: I don't need your link. Yes they are people. They are ran by people who employ people to make products or provide services for people. Yeah man, they are people.
Alphonso Brake: They're not. They're made up of people, of course, but the actual corporation isn't a person.
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