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> should it be illegal for said companies' employees to reach out to their representatives? If they're doing so on their own behalf, with no compensation or ce
by a1369209993 5y ago
> should it be illegal for said companies' employees to reach out to their representatives?
If they're doing so on their own behalf, with no compensation or censure for doing so or not, that's fine. If they're doing it on their employer's behalf, their employer (not them) should face felony charges.
From the first amendment:
> the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
People have a right to reach out to their representatives. Corporations do not have a right to reach out to people's representatives.
- JumpCrisscross 5y ago> People have a right to reach out to their representatives. Corporations do not have a right to reach out to people's representatives. This is the assembly dilemma. How do you nullify rights for a group of people without nullifying it for individuals. Tell me how you you would word a law that makes it illegal for corporations, groups of people, to lobby without making it illegal for individuals (or small groups thereof). Then I’ll tell you how I’d pay for those things alongside a similar, coïncidental bump in compensation. Then you’ll tell me how you’d ban that. And we’d go in circles, all the way until the right has been—practically speaking—extinguished.
- a1369209993 5y agoYou... do realize lobbyists are paid, right? > Tell me how you you would word a law that makes it illegal for corporations, groups of people, to lobby without making it illegal for individuals Eh, sure: corporations are legal entities with things like tax filings, budgets, and bank accounts. If any of that money is spent on influencing legislators, the corporation is dissolved, and all of its assests siezed.