Corporations are not people
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When corporations do not serve a common good in the public interest , YES it should be killed. Its charter should be revoked by the individual state!! Only the corporations that play by the rules will succeed. We could start non for profit entities to compete with them too. Workers can then work at these places.
MrFedEx
Engorged Member
What moreluck fails to realize is that we live in a corporatocracy, where corporations have basically taken control over our government through ownership of politicians. Tea-Party types see no problem with this, and then argue that we need to eliminate "big government" and let the corporations and job creators run free so we can all be prosperous. They are already running free, and look at the results.
trplnkl
555
Because government businesses run so well and pay their own way.
trplnkl
555
You guys talk in so many different terms it's hard to know exactly what you mean sometimes. Give an example of a corporation that serve the common good in the public interest and how it is for the common good. individual state ? Is that state in Texas or New York or is that state as in the government state? Who gets to make the rules? How are the bills of the "non-profit enities payed, what services or goods do they provide?
MrFedEx
Engorged Member
No, because the private sector won't touch government programs that won't make money no matter what. One reason for the very existence of government is to provide services the private sector won't. This is a fact conveniently forgotten by Tea Partiers, Libertarians, and other fans of "small" government.
It's ignorant to think that a huge country like the USA doesn't need an EPA, Dept. of Education, etc. Actually, it's moronic, which far exceeds mere ignorance.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
Well-Known Member
There is a Federal program called Essential Air Services in which the Federal government subsidizes the operations of air carriers on less than profitable routes to ensure that these areas have access to air services.
MrFedEx
Engorged Member
Perfect example. Both UPS and FedEx use a government program called the USPS to deliver their freight into rural areas that would otherwise be unprofitable to service.
Lue C Fur
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Catatonic
Nine Lives
Sorry 804B but that article was just plain goofy.
If you are going to wish others would do things, there are a lot better targets.
Catatonic
Nine Lives
This article has some good points but she conveniently skips over the emphasis of disproportionate funding of a supposed separate organization not controlled by a candidate in the 2008 election.
Unions, extremely wealthy individuals, corporations and any organization of individuals (including all the organizations mentioned in the article) should all be addressed and treated equally and limited equally.
The local grassroots organizations mentioned in this article have no more right to accumulate funds and actively support a candidate than does the super-pacs.
The $2500 limit for individuals was an attempt to actually go down this path.
moreluck
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