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Now you are saying that we can't regulate corporate spending because can't regulate a non-corporate groups spending. It's like saying we can't stop kids from bu
by jmilloy 11y ago
Now you are saying that we can't regulate corporate spending because can't regulate a non-corporate groups spending. It's like saying we can't stop kids from buying alcohol because we can't stop adults from buying alcohol. It makes no sense.
I think you have a reasonable point to make, but you are not being clear enough.
- yummyfajitas 11y agoLet me be very clear. The First Amendment to the US Constitution says: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. The court has ruled that this also means that humans can use their property in the furtherance of speech. Such property can be a printing press, a computer connected to the internet, a corporation, a ship, a billboard or other such things. Some of those pieces of property are legal persons (corporations, ships), others are not. The personhood of the piece of property is irrelevant.
- jmilloy 11y agoThere we go!
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y agoDidn't we fight a war about people being property one upon a time.
- qu4z-2 11y agoI... don't believe you did, but I may be wrong.