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    Corporations Are People!

    By The Decider on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 5:45pm |

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    I have always had my doubts about Mitt Romney, but clearly, Mitt gets it when it comes to corporations. In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, The Supreme Court recognized the right of our fellow, corporate Americans to enjoy free speech. By extension, our corporate brothers also enjoy the other first amendment protections such as freedom of religion (e.g., only Christians can work here), freedom of assembly, freedom to press things and assemble things, etc.

    Today, Mitt declared "Corporations are people, my friend!" and declared himself to be against the current democratic discrimination against corporate Americans.

    Mitt loves corporations so much that he might want to marry one. Hey, maybe that's next!

     

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    If corporations are people, then they must pay taxes like people, be held responsible for their actions like people and most importantly­, die like people.


    by MrSmith1 on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 6:00pm

    Last night I scored with a corporation. She came over so we could watch the Republican debate. I have just broken up with a proprietorship so I wasn't trying to make any moves. Actually she's kind of weird looking, very tall, and with a somewhat glassy skin. We were laughing our flying buttresses off at the stupidity of asking grown ups to all raise their hands. Then they asked Bachmann about being submissive to her husband and I stole a glance only to see a flush rising near the top floor. I decided to test my belief that corporations are real people. I can only tell you guys, particularly you older ones, that something special may lie right before your eyes the next time you walk into a bank, and I'm not talking about the bank tellers. When you strip away the facade and see how those incorporation documents are really stacked, you'll have the surprise of your life.


    by Oxy Mora on Fri, 08/12/2011 - 12:40pm

    They are people Decider, you are so right.... I think that means we can begin taxing them as individuals on their profits err income, and we will now consider their investors, inheritors, and tax that according to inheritance laws! It could work out for everyone.


    by tmccarthy0 on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 6:10pm

    This is big news, and could create jobs.

    For example, I'm hoping to get hired to rewrite the Sesame Street "These are the People in your Neighborhood" song.


    by erica20 on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 6:30pm

    This is a very creative response. You are thinking in profit making ways and harrasning the power of free enterprise rather than thinking of ways to tax corporations and kill the messenger (or is it the piano player?). You would make a good Republican!


    by The Decider on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 7:52pm

    Sweet Jesus, the world is indeed coming to an end.


    by erica20 on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 8:29pm

    You gotta tell them!  Somehow!  Corporations are people!  They're people I tell you!  People!!!!  Corporations are people!!!!

     

        

     


    by Dan Kervick on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 8:33pm

    Where's Dick D. with that award?


    by Verified Atheist on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 8:41pm

    Okay I hereby award Dan Kervick the Dayly Line(s) of the Day Award for this here Dagblog Site, given to all of him from all of me.

    On another note; corporations are better at screwing people than most people and it appears that folks like Mitt are the progeny acquired per that coitus.

    the end

     


    by Richard Day on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 8:56pm

    The corporations ... united ... will never be defeated!


    by Dan Kervick on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 9:04pm

    Power to the Corps, off the SEC!


    by jollyroger on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 10:14pm

    Corporations become Self Aware, they don’t need HUMANS  

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DQsG3TKQ0I&feature=fvsr


    by Resistance on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 10:48pm

    Don't you see?  By accepting them among us, we prevent them from feeling that they have to nuke us in order to survive. They're no longer them, they are us. Then maybe they will stop sending all of those terminators back here all the time and we can turn our attention to the real threat (...zombies!)


    by The Decider on Fri, 08/12/2011 - 9:49pm

    Wow, maybe we shouldn't be focused on the birth certificate? 

    Unto this world a child is born in Hawaii (Obama)

    We demand an X-ray of his skull, is it made up of gray matter OR @2:32 over  

    "cybernetic organism; living tissue over metal endoskeleton"  

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKJonM0fM54


    by Resistance on Sat, 08/13/2011 - 1:38pm