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Theres the rub. Corporations should not be considered entities. If they want so bad to have the same rights as people, let them have the same obligations. Personal income tax rates apply, as well as jail time for CEOs if the company breaks the law.
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Corporations are nothing more than a group of individuals who collectively conduct business together. Ergo, personal income tax rates DO apply. As do capital gains taxes.
Furthermore, you're missing a very important point - neither I, nor anyone else, is actually supporting corporations having the same rights as a private citizen. That, my friend, would mean something else entirely - the right to actually vote.
Moving on, let me ask you this: would you support the same restrictions being applied to unions? Do you support restricting the publication of books during election seasons? How about censoring the corporate-owned editorial boards of newspapers from endorsing candidates?
Frankly, I think the idea that allowing the exercise of free speech to be EXTENDED to corporations during electoral season is anti-Constitution. The Constitution exists solely to restrict government, and it is quite clear regarding free speech. Hence, corporations needn't have rights extended to them - they should already have those rights.
As an aside, I find this constant demonization of corporations from the left to be ironic and trite - ironic considering that, during this season of the healthcare debate corporations are the primary providers of insurance to workers; and trite considering the hypocrisy involved with ignoring the unions who are somehow allowed a pass on the restrictions so sought after for corporations (although one of them, I believe the SEIU, donated $60 MILLION to Obama).
Finally, need I remind you that our electoral process was chugging along just fine PRIOR to McCain/Feingold? Sure, soft money WAS a problem, but as it affected both parties equally, it really just cancelled itself out. Besides, soft money is still banned (which I agree with).
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Oh come on, now. I know you're smarter than that.
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Wait, you're going to take ONE sentence out of a paragraph supporting it, and claim that somehow it defaults itself?
There was a point there, and I clarified it in the following sentences. Either you just missed it or you're intentionally attempting to discredit the idea out of context.
Shame.
