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Martin Jordan's avatar

If corporations can vote, can we deport them? Put them in prison?

Warren's avatar

You betcha!!

Cathleen in Autumn's avatar

A person needs to be identified as living, breathing. Its like you have to spell it out so these corrupt people do not take advantage of our laws. They look for any loophole. Look at Cacao farms, modified trees are pollinating near by farms of unmodified Cacao trees, so because these companies have the patents on the modified Cacao trees, near by farms were pollinated by the corp trees....... that farm is theirs because its a patent plant now ??? Laws need to be made crystal clear so no corrupt person can find loopholes.

Warren's avatar

Good luck! As Stuart said on iCarly, “One thing I learned in my 72 hours in law school: there’s always a loophole.”

Kathy Notaro's avatar

This is absolutely ridiculous. Can my company vote? I have a corporation. Can my company vote can I add all my employees and make it a whole bunch of votes. This is stupid!

Warren's avatar

As the law stands in Delaware, your corporation can vote in Delaware. Congratulations!

Patricia Poohkay's avatar

You just can’t make this shit 💩 up! 🇨🇦😖

Leslie Olsen's avatar

What happened to "One person, One Vote?"

Warren's avatar

“One man, one vote”. Persona is Latin for “mask”, meaning the similacra of a human being. Marshall imported the notion of the Limited Liability Corporation, or LTD, from Anglo Saxon Common Law, which was blatantly a whole cloth invention, and found nowhere in the Constitution. But like most bad ideas, it takes awhile to get rid of.

Dona Musitano's avatar

I think this is great. Every person who votes is limited in how much they can donate. This means since each corporation is a single voting entity, they may only contribute what any citizen is allowed to donate. I'm not sure the judge thought this through. It should bring Citizens United back to the public awareness and Democrats should use overturning it as a goal.

Warren's avatar

How much does it cost to incorporate in Delaware? What if the Democrats incorporated at a factor of 100 times the Republican Corporations, and changed the tax laws in a referendum? Democrats could also do this south of the Mason Dixon Line and west of the Mississippi. As Bugs Bunny said about Wile E. Coyote, “Fight fire with fire, I slways say.” Instead of sending $100 to the DNCC, use on-line forms to iincorporate in Delaware for $100, keep the shares of stock, and start doing the American Dream. Screw AI, if all of us who lost our jobs to AI become corporations, and started voting for enforcement of anti-trust laws against Big Tech, Big Media, and Big Amazon. We could vote to end the tax exemption for 501(3)(c) corporations, like churches. Remember the Assignats of the French Revolution, citizen? (which brings up the question, can corporations under 18 vote? are they citizens? can undocumented immigrants who own corporations vote? can corporations from the Bahamas vote?)

Tom, thank God someone else knows about McCullough v Marylsnd, Gibbons v Ogden, and Dartmouth College v Woodward!!! I’ve been saying for a long time that John Marshall killed democracy in the US, and he did it in 1819. Corporations can get injunctions to kill strikes by labor unions BECAUSE CORPORATIONS ARE PERSONS AT LAW! Labor advocates have hsted the Supreme Court since … forever, and WE WANT JURISDICTION STRIPPING!!

Larry Robert Benson's avatar

This is the exact type of BS article that makes it hard to believe anyone, it hyperbole and manipulation of the truth to make it seem so much worse than it really is. NOTHING changed, same rules corporations have had in Delaware for almost 200 years. No federal, state nor local government representative votes!! Small, limited cases when they own land they get a say in property tax and similar very niche areas! This is click bait BS to get you to subscribe, might as well be FOX news, basically, truths with a slant best RA and THOM should be ashamed.

Ronna Smith's avatar

What’s it going to take to end Citizens United once & for all or biggest wallet makes the rules for themselves…like they are right fkn now!

Jeannine B Busby's avatar

When are WE THE PEOPLE GING TO STAND UP TO ALL THIS CORRUPTION.

PROTEST DONT WORK ........ OR DO THEY???

Rev Cmdr Robert E Chace's avatar

For one the judges were paid off so it makes thier decisions even today null and void. A corporation CAN NOT legally vote as they are not a living breathing human being but a manifestation of an idea to make money and are a business ONLY and have no legal authority or rights

Larry Robert Benson's avatar

They have been for 200 years, this is click\rage bait. They are extremely limited on what and where they can place votes and this is trying to make it seem like they can all the sudden vote on elected officials, they cannot.