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Originally Posted by Xerxys
Just how will this work though? Aren't corporations the backbone of what runs a country? This isn't the 17th century where military might defined a country's development. ECONOMY runs this shit!! If it's not cost effective it won't be done.
Who makes the pennies if not the corporations? Who runs the corporations if not the same people that are in office?
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I don't mean to take France as an example for too many things (I have in Healthcare threads, and other things), but my knowledge of other countries is quite limited, TBH.
In France you don't have lobbies, corporations can't fund campaigns or special interests, and every politician in a political race gets equal airtime/billboard space/exposure in general. That's the law, and in general I think it's applied pretty well.
So it can work, and corporate competition isn't thrown out the window. I'm not saying it's a better system, but I think it's wrong that you can have a louder voice when you have a bigger wallet.
Sorry if this was slightly off topic.
On the issue of corporate personhood, I don't think it should be that way.