Sounds like your question has now moved the goal posts on what you imagine to be "that whole buffer argument". What matters is whether corporations routinely g

Sounds like your question has now moved the goal posts on what you imagine to be "that whole buffer argument". What matters is whether corporations routinely get away with stuff that individuals don't, in practice. Not whether there's a "legal basis" for it. And this is wide spread, plain obvious and readily admitted by most Americans. Your framing of the question edges on the disingenuous because it really doesn't matter, even if there was legal basis to this or to the opposite, it would be selectively applied to large corporations any way. So many things for which there actually is a legal basis when it concerns individuals, corporations get away with in practice so frequently, that most individuals (of modal income) don't even attempt and try to get their right. Because they'll lose or bleed an unknown amount of money into it, which they probably can't afford.