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RoeVWade

(200 posts)
Wed Mar 15, 2023, 12:40 PM Mar 2023

If a corporation is a person, do we have to

If a corporation is a person, do we have to spend our own money to save it, if it is about to collapse, and can't fund its way out of failure just like we treat real people in our emergency rooms?

Just thought it was a funny comparison to make, though not funny funny, just what comes with a comparison to being a person.

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Farmer-Rick

(10,140 posts)
1. If corporations are people they need health care
Wed Mar 15, 2023, 12:45 PM
Mar 2023

But they need to pay through the nose for it like all the rest of us in the US.

lapfog_1

(29,194 posts)
3. fortunately we are doing anything to save any corporation
Wed Mar 15, 2023, 01:01 PM
Mar 2023

only the banks depositors will get their money back, not the corporation or it's owners / investors.

Not only that but the deposits were, except for the amount SVB sold before it collapsed, safe.

IbogaProject

(2,789 posts)
5. I'll believe a Corporation is a Person when Texas executes one.
Wed Mar 15, 2023, 02:46 PM
Mar 2023

That is a funny phrase I've read on this issue of corporate 'personhood'.

hadEnuf

(2,177 posts)
6. How can a corporation be a person? People in corporations already have rights.
Wed Mar 15, 2023, 02:59 PM
Mar 2023

Why do corporations get to double-dip?

StClone

(11,682 posts)
13. I have asked that and why can money be donated by an individual...
Wed Mar 15, 2023, 03:37 PM
Mar 2023

...and then by the corporation they own into politics. If money is the "free speech" of a corporation isn't that twice the free speech?

DENVERPOPS

(8,790 posts)
8. with all
Wed Mar 15, 2023, 03:04 PM
Mar 2023

the un-fathomable things we could list, that the Republicans have used to destroy our middle class, destroy our economy, decimate our democracy, and trash our U.S. Constitution.................

The one thing the Republicans have done, which minimizes all the other things, is taking over the USSC and passing "CITIZENS UNITED" in 2010

More than all the others combined, that single act was truly the KISS OF DEATH to America...........

Codifer

(542 posts)
10. This
Wed Mar 15, 2023, 03:32 PM
Mar 2023

Citizens United was the real prize, a way to finance fascism with monies from unknowable agents.

Codifer

(542 posts)
15. My standard reply
Wed Mar 15, 2023, 04:07 PM
Mar 2023

to the knuckle draggers who don't want the "gummint" making decisions for them is to ask them if it would be ok for Bank of America to define life for them. Or Boeing (Since the McDonald Douglas takeover.)

I guess that any corporation would work but everyone has a Bank of America horror story.

Simeon Salus

(1,141 posts)
9. Corporations are just bad persons and not citizens at all
Wed Mar 15, 2023, 03:29 PM
Mar 2023

The laws made in the last 50 years have made corporations superior to actual citizens.

And since they're not citizens, they are using foreign money to buy all three branches of government (and my local school board).

AllaN01Bear

(18,008 posts)
11. if corperations are people and we have a war and the lottery draft is reinstate
Wed Mar 15, 2023, 03:34 PM
Mar 2023

can the corps be drafted if lottery number is called?

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