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They have a favourable taxation system (I'd love to be able to only pay tax on the money I haven't spent; instead I pay on my revenue...). A quick Google so fa
by andy_ppp 11y ago
They have a favourable taxation system (I'd love to be able to only pay tax on the money I haven't spent; instead I pay on my revenue...).
A quick Google so far reveals:
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/civil-liberties/report/2012/08/13/11974/big-business-taking-over-state-supreme-courts/ https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/civil-liberties/repo...
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/06/19/corporations-over-people-again/ http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/06/19/corporations-over-peo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood
Political contributions and lobbying, things like the TPP, TTIP, the IMF, etc. etc. are all pretty much set up to think about businesses over human lives.
EDIT: This is a good one...
http://www.npr.org/2014/07/28/335288388/when-did-companies-become-people-excavating-the-legal-evolution http://www.npr.org/2014/07/28/335288388/when-did-companies-b...
- make3 11y agothe American political contributions system gives way to much power to corporations & needs to be fixed