Incorporation shouldn't force people to give up their rights?
In moving beyond the corporate personhood argument, the right makes this argument:
"The government simply can’t force people to forfeit their free exercise rights when they incorporate a business—just as it can’t force them to forsake these liberties when they enter the workforce, attend school, or engage in any other secular pursuit. More to the point, there’s nothing about the act of incorporation (or commerce generally) that necessarily amounts to a waiver of individual free exercise rights."
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ilyashapiro/2014/02/03/so-what-if-corporations-arent-people/
This doesn't seem quite right, does it? What do you think?
A corporation is evidently a special island where real people can escape liabilities while retaining the right to lord their rights over every entity in and out of the corporation. Are there limits to the corporation imposing their rights on its employees? This argument seems to give "carte blanche" to a workplace environment that sometimes feels like slavery already. This might be acceptable if incorporation added some other reasonable responsibilities on a corporation. But it doesn't.
Remember when conservatives talked about personal responsibilities? 'With rights come responsibilities!' The only responsibility a corporation has is to make a profit. Sadly, some "wise" old man on the Supreme Court don't seem to understand how dangerous a myopic corporation can be to our society.
Recall the Hobby Lobby case: the problem they had with a particular birth control method was factually incorrect! It's simply amazing. If we must tolerate the slavery of a corporate workplace, can we at least expect them to be honest and factual? If we are an enlightened nation, how can we survive the stupidity and tyranny from the top 1%?
Just think, incorporation is partly about bad people escaping punishment by hiding behind the corporation. In a way, the victims of corporations are losing their rights to seek justice because a criminal incorporated. Oh, and don't forget tort-reform. They want to erase almost all rights of victims to go against the corporation.
Reagan and his Republicans liked to criticize the government without noticing the power of corporations. To PARAPHRASE Reagan's famous rant against 'socialized medicine:' "One day... we will wake to find that we have" corporate fascism (my words). Under this scenario, Reagan says, "We are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children, what it once was like in America when men were free." Thank-you uncle, Ronny that's exactly what YOU gave us. Corporations stole our freedom.
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