Romney in Iowa: 'Corporations are people'

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  1. Goodoledays

    Goodoledays New Member

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    TRUE! All it really is actually is bribery.
     
  2. Consmike

    Consmike New Member Past Donor

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    NO, you just said you have no say, which I proved wrong.
     
  3. Anikdote

    Anikdote Well-Known Member

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    What in the sam hell are you talking about?

    Why should everyone have a say? How is that relevant to anything and why do you keep going on about it?

    @Edit: On second thought, I don't care.
     
  4. Ethereal

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    Actually, corporations are aliens. No people, just aliens. Unions, on the other hand, ARE people and have all the rights, real or imagined, that any decent union person is entitled to.
     
  5. Questerr

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    I second this motion.
     
  6. Questerr

    Questerr Banned

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    How can an inanimate object have rights? Does my car have rights?

    You Conservaitves believe that Rights come from God. Does God grant corporations rights?
     
  7. Consmike

    Consmike New Member Past Donor

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    When company A steals from company B, Company B has rights and can sue A.

    When a person sabotages Company A, company A has rights.

    All rights come from God.
     
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  8. Questerr

    Questerr Banned

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    The Rightwing argument seems to boil down to since corporations are made up of people, they are therefore people themselves.

    Does that only apply to corporations? Why aren't other organizations amde up of people considered to be persons? Are churches people?

    If churches are people, then they are being unconstitutionally granted extra rights. A church has the right to be tax exempt if they refrain from political speech. I want that right as a person.
     
  9. Questerr

    Questerr Banned

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    Why doesn't my car have rights? What makes it so that one inanimate object has rights and another doesn't?

    I distinctly don't remember corporations being mentioned in the Bible.
     
  10. Consmike

    Consmike New Member Past Donor

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    If you attack a church, your attacking all the people who belong to the Church.

    When Rev. Wrights Church was attacked, Obama was attacked. got it? Its actually really easy to understand.
     
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    .....

    Then if they are people, let them pay their taxes just like we do.....
     
  12. Jet57

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    Oh yeah, I know what you mean. I think this thing is going to wind up as the XXVIII amendment corrrecting an obvious wrong. There is a movement afoot to make that happen.

    This "error" has defied reason for generations now.
     
  13. Consmike

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    You or the finance company own the car.

    Therefore there are rights that protect the car.

    someone else can't steal it, key it, smash the windows, cut the tires etc.
     
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    Consmike New Member Past Donor

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    They do pay taxes.
     
  15. Questerr

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    But I am the one who has rights. NOT THE CAR. The car is not a person. It is property.
     
  16. Questerr

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    So does that mean that I can now say that whenever you say anything bad about a Muslim that you are attacking all Muslims and you won't argue the point?
     
  17. Jet57

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    Uh no; there's money that protects the car. There are statues that protect personal property, however, because the car comes under a state "privilage" it is subject to unwarrented search and siezure. The holder of the "pink slip"; like a deed, is the owner. The issue is really one of the civil war.
     
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    Those people are individuals who each have their individual right to contribute. A corporation is a separate singular entity.
     
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    Once again, either the left wing is nuts or they really understand what he was saying and are just being (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)s.

    Pick one.

    If the government overtaxs, overregulates corporations, both small and large, it will affect people. If the government overtaxs, overregulates people they will affect corporations.

    It's really not that hard to understand what the man was saying. Perhaps some folks need to break away from the Internet and do something else for awhile. Sitting on the net you can get tunnelvision and lose common sense b/c you get to wrapped up in your idealogy.

    I think that is what is happening here. As for the idiots in the DNC, I don't expect anything substantial out of them.
     
  20. Goodoledays

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    Get it through your head. And that separate singular entity is made up of those individuals makeing what they call a corporation. In other words they and the corp. are people.
     
  21. Ethereal

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    People lose their rights once they form a corporation; they cease being persons. It's different, though, when they form a union.
     
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    LOL aint hypocrisy grand? :D
     
  23. Questerr

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    How exactly do people lose their rights when they form a corporation?
     
  24. yguy

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    It really is a shame people can't be banned for posting abject imbecilities.
     
  25. Ethereal

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    They don't lose their rights. They retain their right to spend money on political speech, among other things.
     

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