Political Persuasion- how did you get there?

Alex · 11-12-2006, 12:33 PM

Except the profit motive pretty much drives all people as well and it, more than anything else, is what is probably the inevitable death of individual democracies.

But the biggest legal change I've always advocated is that while for certain legal reasons it is necessary to treat a corporation as a person there are obvious places where this analogy breaks down and we need to come up with better rules. Unlike people, corporations are potentially immortal and this causes difficulties in Intellectual Property law and estate management, for example.

In the political realm they also create a situation of representation without population. I'm against campaign finance reform because I do believe that how I spend my money is a speech issue. If I have $1 billion and I want to spend it promoting the election of Joe Blow to the senate then I think that is my right. I do not think freedom of speech should extend to non-human entities. I have no problem with completely removing corporations from the political realm and requiring that any and all financial or other support must be traced back to a real human. If Bob Iger wants to give $1 million to Nancy Pelosi and encourage her to extend copyright to 1,000 years from creation, that's fine with me. If the Walt Disney Company wants to give $1 to Nancy Pelosi for the same, I have problems. Of course, this applies to unions and many many other indirect lobbying groups as well.

11-12-2006, 12:33 PM	#37
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Except the profit motive pretty much drives all people as well and it, more than anything else, is what is probably the inevitable death of individual democracies. But the biggest legal change I've always advocated is that while for certain legal reasons it is necessary to treat a corporation as a person there are obvious places where this analogy breaks down and we need to come up with better rules. Unlike people, corporations are potentially immortal and this causes difficulties in Intellectual Property law and estate management, for example. In the political realm they also create a situation of representation without population. I'm against campaign finance reform because I do believe that how I spend my money is a speech issue. If I have $1 billion and I want to spend it promoting the election of Joe Blow to the senate then I think that is my right. I do not think freedom of speech should extend to non-human entities. I have no problem with completely removing corporations from the political realm and requiring that any and all financial or other support must be traced back to a real human. If Bob Iger wants to give $1 million to Nancy Pelosi and encourage her to extend copyright to 1,000 years from creation, that's fine with me. If the Walt Disney Company wants to give $1 to Nancy Pelosi for the same, I have problems. Of course, this applies to unions and many many other indirect lobbying groups as well.
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